Bus passenger may have seen ‘suicide bomber’

A passenger on board the bus which was blown up in London’s Tavistock Square on Thursday, has said he may have seen the terrorist who carried out the attack.

Richard Jones, 61, told ‘The Sun’ newspaper that he had been on the Number 30 bus, travelling from Hackney to Marble Arch, when he saw a man continuously fiddling with something in a bag.

Mr Jones told the newspaper that the man looked ‘nervous’ and was “continually diving into his bag, rummaging round and looking in it”.

Mr Jones got off the bus just before it exploded.

Mr Jones’ comments echoed those of Terence Mutasa, a nurse who treated two female survivors of the bus blast. Mr Mutasa told The Sun: “They were saying some guy came and sat down and that he exploded.”

There has been increasing speculation that the bus explosion, the last of four blasts, which happened during rush hour on Thursday morning in the capital, was caused by a suicide bomber. However, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said that there was still no evidence that any of the explosions had been caused by suicide bombers, although he said he was not "ruling it out".

It has been confirmed that thirteen people were killed during that explosion.

Sir Ian said that "at least 50" people have been killed in all four explosions, which also included three blasts on Tube trains. Around 700 people have been injured.

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(KMcA/MB)