BBC reporter Sophie Raworth reveals horror injuries of Parsons Green terror victims stretchered from Tube explosion
A BBC reporter described how she saw a woman with horrific injuries after the terror attack at Parsons Green this morning.
Sophie Raworth said she witnessed a woman being taken to hospital with burns "from top to toe" amid the chaos.
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She added: "I have just seen a woman who was just there, she was just stretchered out.
"Her legs are wrapped up and she has been burnt, she has burns to her face, she was conscious, she was taking some pain relief and some oxygen but clearly people have sustained burns.
"She seemed to have burns all over her body from top to toe."
It was thought 20 people were injured including a schoolboy in a failed bucket bomb terror attack on the London Underground during this morning's rush hour.
Police confirmed they are treating it as a terrorist incident, amid reports a knifeman was still on the run and police had been called to defuse a second device.
More on the Parsons Green terror attack
The London Ambulance Service confirmed 22 people had been taken to hospital this morning - none of them are thought to have life-threatening injuries.
Commuters on their way to work reported a "fireball flying down a carriage" as the bomb, hidden in a bucket in a Lidl bag, detonated inside the carriage.
Prime Minister Theresa May is being keep informed of developments, in what appears to be the fourth major terror attack on British soil in six months, after five innocent people were killed in the Westminster attack in March, 22 were killed in the Ariana Grande bombing in Manchester in May, and eight were killed in the van knife rampage on London Bridge in June.
People fled the station screaming as the blast sent flames flying with a reporter at the scene saying people are "really badly burned" adding that "their hair was coming off".
One person tweeted she had to "run for my life" as others said they were told by cops to "run" and leave the area.
Multiple people are said to have been injured as some witnesses described seeing people badly burnt.
What we know so far:
- A homemade bucket bomb connected to a timer sent a "fireball" hurtling through an eastbound District Line Tube at Parsons Green at around 8.20am
- The Metropolitan Police confirmed they are treating the horror as a terror attack and have identified a suspect using CCTV
- 22 people have been taken to four hospitals across London including a young boy believed to have suffered serious burns to his legs
- Train services through the area have been halted and a wide cordon put in place after terrified commuters were injured in a "stampede"
- Theresa May has confirmed the UK terror threat level will remain at severe but security will be beefed up on trains following the "cowardly" attack
- Initial reports falsely suggested a knifeman was on the loose and a second bomb was being detonated
RECENT ATTACKS IN THE UK
- June 19 2017: One man dies and several others are injured after a man allegedly rams his van into worshippers in north London. Darren Osborne, 47, of no fixed address in Cardiff, is charged with murder and attempted murder after being accused of carrying out a premeditated attack on Muslims as they left a mosque on Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park.
- June 3 2017: Eight people are killed in a terror attack around London Bridge. A van ploughed into people on the bridge before the three attackers carried out a knife rampage in Borough Market. The perpetrators - Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22 - were shot dead by police.
- May 22 2017: Twenty-two people - including children - are killed in a bombing at a pop concert in Manchester. Lone suicide attacker Salman Abedi detonated an explosive device as crowds of music fans, many of them youngsters, left Manchester Arena following a performance by US singer Ariana Grande.
- March 22 2017: Five people are killed in a car and knife attack in Westminster. Khalid Masood drove a hire car over Westminster Bridge, near the Houses of Parliament, mounted the pavement and hit pedestrians before crashing into railings outside the Palace of Westminster. He stabbed Pc Keith Palmer, 48, to death. Also killed in the atrocity were US tourist Kurt Cochran, Romanian tourist Andreea Cristea, 31, and Britons Aysha Frade, 44, and 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes. Masood was shot dead by police.
- June 16 2016: Labour MP Jo Cox is murdered outside her constituency office in Batley, West Yorkshire. The mother-of-two, 41, was shot and stabbed multiple times by right-wing extremist Thomas Mair. He was later handed a whole-life prison sentence for her murder.
- May 22 2013: Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered by Islamist extremists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale. The 25-year-old serviceman was walking near his barracks in Woolwich, south-east London, when the pair rammed him with a car before attempting to hack off his head with knives. The killers were jailed at the Old Bailey in February 2014.
- July 7 2005: Four suicide bombers kill 52 and injure hundreds of others in blasts on the London Underground network and a bus. Twenty-six died in the bombing at Russell Square on the Piccadilly line, six in the bombing at Edgware Road on the Circle line, seven in the bombing at Aldgate on the Circle line, and 13 in the bombing on a bus at Tavistock Square.
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