Several passers-by also gave chase with one trying to rugby tackle the man.Hugo Caillat, 25, a DJ from France who lives near by, said he was inside the station buying a ticket. It was a big, black rucksack."A woman passenger said: "A policeman on his way to work... People started saying, 'Smoke, smoke'."One of the train guys came through and said 'We're evacuating, everyone out'."As we were walking past the carriage, we could see the bag sitting on the chair. As soon as the door opened, the man ran away and people were trying to run after him.
There were three men struggling with him but he ran off and they couldn't catch him."Another witness said: "There was a popping, it sounded like champagne popping Then I heard shouting from the next-door carriage. A woman on the train at Oval station on the Northern line described seeing a man dash off the train at about 12.30pm, leaving the bag behind. Others said a man waiting at the station dumped the bag in a carriage and fled back up the escalator. The female passenger told Sky News: "There was a little explosion. Unofficial police reports said that there was a bag " located within the station".. Passengers on a Tube train in south London desperately tried to catch a man who fled after his rucksack exploded in a carriage, witnesses said. At 10.30pm, press were allowed into an inner cordon within 70 yards of Shepherd's Bush station. A large white tent had been erected into which forensic police teams were driving vans Police found a second suspicious package in the station.
Residents in half a dozen side streets as well as the main road, Uxbridge Road were told they could not return to their homes last night and would have to sleep in a "displaced persons" centre nearby. The man had been in the last carriage of a Hammersmith & City train heading into central London as it drew into the station at 12.25pm. About 100 people were led from the train in what a witness called a "remarkably orderly" evacuation. Police sources described the incident as an "attempted explosion". But only after he stopped his van near the west London station did he realise he was witnessing the immediate aftermath of a serious incident. Mr Iqbal, 42, said: "There was a man in a blue suit who looked very shaken. He said someone had left a bag in his carriage and all hell had broken loose. He said the man carrying the bag had run out of the station and people ran away from the train.
