Mrs Seabrook said the bus was travelling from Euston to Russell Square and had been " packed" with people turned away from Tube stops. Survivors of the Tube blasts described scenes of total chaos. Simon Corvett, 26, from Oxford, was on the eastbound train leaving Edgware Road Tube station when the explosion happened He said: "All of sudden there was this massive huge bang It was absolutely deafening and all the windows shattered. The Home Secretary Charles Clarke said: " As far as the police are concerned, they are in operational command and dealing with the situation in accordance with very well-established procedures in an extremely professional way. There were also at least two deaths in the bus blast in Upper Woburn Square * Casualty hotline: 0870 1566 344. * The Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick said no warnings were given and no claims of responsibility have been received by the police.
* The Prime Minister Tony Blair said before leaving the G8 summit: "It is particularly barbaric that this has happened on a day when people are meeting to try to help the problems of poverty in Africa and the long term problems of climate change and the environment." * The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said: "We do not want people to call the emergency services unless it is a life-threatening matter." Hours after the blasts there was still no official death toll but survivors of blasts reported seeing piles of bodies. Police at the scene of the bus blast also said several people had died. The blasts were initially blamed on a power surge but it soon became clear that it was a co-ordinated terrorist attack on the capital. Witnesses said the roof was ripped off. * Seven people died in the first blast in a tunnel 100yds from Liverpool Street Station, 21 died in the blast at King's Cross/Russell Square and five died at Edgware Road station in an explosion involving three trains. She added: "I was on the train and there was a fire outside the carriage window and then there was a sudden jolt which shook us forward "The explosion was behind me "Some people took charge.
We went out of the back of the carriage." She said the explosion happened at 8.50am but she was not able to get off the carriage until 9.30am. Miss Reid said an announcement came on but cut off after saying: "Hello". "There was really hard banging from the carriage next door to us," she said, describing events immediately after the blast "That was where it happened," she added. She said there was a fire which she had seen initially outside the window of her carriage.