London subway blasts almost simultaneous: police LONDON, July 9 (Kyodo) _ The three bombs on the subway in Thursday's attack on London's transport network exploded almost simultaneously, police said Saturday.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Brian Paddick revealed that technical data retrieved in the ongoing investigation showed all of the blasts happened at approximately 8:50 a.m., within 50 seconds of each other. Speaking at a joint police and transport press conference in central London, Paddick detailed that the first explosion is believed to have taken place between Aldgate and Liverpool Street subway stations, followed by the two blasts at Edgware Road and Russell Square. The fourth and final bomb, on a bus located near Tavistock Square, is still considered to have exploded "significantly after the others" at 9:47 a.m. Managing Director of London Underground Tim O'Toole said it was his original perception that the blasts were within three minutes of each other. He went on to reveal to the assembled journalists through a series of graphics that further scrutiny of the subway's computerized network had proved his original analysis, saying, "It was bang, bang, bang, very close together." O'Toole detailed that by 9:15 a.m. all subway trains were stopped or moved to stations and that a total "code red" shutdown and evacuation of the entire extensive network followed shortly after knowledge of the bus explosion came through. He said that the complete blackout of the London Underground was not a decision that was taken lightly. Paddick said the clarification on the timing of the explosions did not take the police significantly further in their investigations. He outlined two possibilities for such precisely timed detonation as being either "synchronized watches" -- implying that suicide bombers may have been involved -- or "timing devices" and added that the police were more inclined toward the latter. Referring to the above-ground blast, Paddick refused to confirm or deny reports that police had found a timing device on the bus. However, the deputy commissioner said forensic evidence suggested that the explosion came from a "device in a bag, rather than one strapped to a person's body." Following the previous reports that each device carried less than 10 pounds of explosives, Paddick said analysis revealed that the substance was definitely "high explosives, tending to suggest that the bombs were not homemade." He refused, however, to say whether the explosives were military, commercial, plastic or otherwise, in case the reports undermined the investigation. The police confirmed that no arrests have been made in connection with Thursday's incidents and that a "whole series" of investigative lines were being pursued as opposed to a search for named individuals. 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