Brave lad, 13, injured in Parsons Green terror attack tells how he was buried under sea of bodies with ‘no air’ after bomb blast triggered stampede
A BOY caught up in the Parsons Green terror attack has told how he was crushed in a stampede of people fleeing the nightmare.
Alex Ojeda-Sierra, 13, had been travelling to school with a pal when a bomb exploded in another tube carriage - injuring 30 people.
But in the panic fleeing the carnage he was crushed when he tripped and a man fell on top of him.
Alex, a pupil at the Catholic London Oratory School in Fulham, West London, said: "I dropped my bag and we started running.
"One man fell on me and I had my legs bent backwards and my right ankle got twisted, and I started screaming that I had no air.
"I dropped my bag and we started running."
The youngster was then pictured being carried from the scene by firefighters.
He was treated for his injuries - including facial bruises and sprains - at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Describing her fear after first hearing of trouble at Parsons Green, his mum Maria told the : "I was terrified because the school doesn’t allow phones and so I couldn’t get hold of Alex – I instinctively knew something was wrong and my panic was now in overdrive."
She later received a call from a woman on an unknown number saying she was with Alex.
She added: "She put him on the line and he was very frightened.
"He was scared because he didn’t know where his brother was – that was his main concern."
As other commuters helped Alex his first thought was for his elder brother, Robert, 15, who boarded the same train at Wimbledon that morning.
He did not know that Robert had earlier got off the train at East Putney station to use the toilet, the reports.
Yesterday at his home in Morden, south London, his mum Maria said: "It's been a traumatic couple of days but he's now resting and recovering."
She added: "We're just grateful he is OK."
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 on Friday
- The Metropolitan Police confirmed they are treating the horror as a terror attack
- 30 people were injured including a young boy believed to have suffered serious burns to his legs
- British police arrested an 18-year-old man in the ferry departure area of the port of Dover on Saturday
- Hours later, police raided a house in a commuter town southwest of London, and evacuated nearby premises as a precaution
- A second man, 21, was arrested late last night in in Hounslow and a second home in Stanwell was raided by cops
- Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said the UK's threat level has been lowered from critical to severe
British police arrested an 18-year-old man in the ferry departure area of the port of Dover on Saturday on suspicion of being involved in the bombing of a London Underground train and were looking for more potential suspects on the loose.
The man, who has not been named, was arrested on suspicion of committing, preparing or instigating an act of terrorism after Friday's attack in which 30 people were injured at Parsons Green station.
"We're keeping an open mind around whether more than one person is responsible for the attack," Neil Basu of London's Metropolitan Police told reporters.
Dover's ferry terminal was evacuated during the arrest and "a number of items" were recovered, while the teenager is now in custody in London.
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