London bombing leaves 22 injured

Twenty-two people were injured this Friday, none of them seriously, by the blast of a homemade bomb in the London subway in rush hour, according to the National Health Service (NHS).

"The London Ambulance Service moved 18 patients to hospitals and the others went their own way," the NHS said in a statement, saying the wounded were distributed to four hospitals near Parsons Green in southwest London, where the facts occurred

The bomb used was a homemade device so most of the injured people were burned by a flash. "We now estimate that it was the detonation of a homemade explosive device," which caused mainly "burns by a flash," police said.

British Prime Minister Theresa May will chair an emergency committee meeting to deal with the attack on the British capital's mass transit system, the official Downing Street residence said.

"My thoughts are with those who were injured in Parsons Green and the emergency services that are once again responding quickly and courageously to a suspected terrorist incident," the premier said in a statement.

The head of government will chair the so-called Cobra committee, which is made up of the main ministers and meets only when a terrorist attack or a serious incident occurs.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan condemned the attack and said that "as London has demonstrated so many times before, terrorism will not intimidate or win."

The UK has suffered several attacks this year, such as the one perpetrated last March before the London Parliament; the Manchester Arena stadium in the north of England in May; the London Bridge in June, and another, also in June, in a mosque in the north of the British capital.

"THE PEOPLE RANKED BY THE STATION COVERED BY BLOOD"

Robyn Frost, a passenger on the London Underground train where the blast occurred, said that "people were running through the station covered in blood" and "people were running and screaming trying to escape."

Several passengers have been injured with face burns after blowing up a white cube inside a supermarket bag on a train at Parsons Green subway station in the south-west of the British capital, according to the media.

Witnesses reported that people were coming out of the subway crying and screaming causing a stampede due to the panic situation.

Richard Aylmer-Hall, 53, one of the travelers, was sitting on the subway en route to central London when he began to panic around.

Aylmer-Hall said he saw several injured people trying to flee and many were trampled while trying to escape the station.

A woman who was standing on the platform while the passengers were leaving the subway car pointed out that "from the other end of the train you could see a ball of fire."

When trying to flee Parsons Green, many of the passengers left with cuts and bruises, reason why they had to be attended by the ambulance that went to the place of the facts.

A passenger, named only as Lucas, told the BBC he heard "a very strong explosion" and when he looked back there appeared to be a burnt bag but at first he did not relate it.

"I saw people with minor injuries, burns to the face, arms, legs, but they all helped each other," he added.

Many travelers commented on the "What's going on at Parsons Green" situation on Twitter? I've never been so scared. "

Another traveler said: "I went down the stairs and after a while people crowded one on top of the other and fell trying to run fast."

Chris Wildish, who was on the train, said he saw a "device" on the last train and that he identified it as "a white cube in a white supermarket bag."

"The flames were still coming out of it when I saw it and had a bunch of wires hanging from it - I can only assume it was made on purpose," he added.

For its part, Transport for London (TfL), which operates the British capital's Metro, asked passengers using the District Line line to look for an alternative route to reach their destination.

This explosion in London comes at a time when the UK is on high alert after four terrorist attacks so far this year.