7.7: One Day In London Page #7

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what's gone on down there,

'but people are coming up here

with blackened faces,

'all blood in their faces

and they're very distressed.

'So it definitely looks like

an explosion, yeah?

'Something's gone badly wrong

down there.

'We really don't know at the moment,

we just had a loud bang.

'People are coming with cuts,

all covered in sh*t. All right.

'Is there any more casualties

than just the one you know?

'No, just walking wounded

at the moment,

'and the one we know that's

under the train with legs missing.

'All I know at the moment.

All right, OK.

'We've still seen

no ambulances here.

'They're on their way,

obviously, we've...

'You need to make them aware

it is a big incident, we want a few.

'Yeah, OK. Cheers.'

'I could see people

in the carriage alongside, '

and they were frantically

trying to pull open the doors

on their carriage.

The people in the train beside us

started smashing the windows,

to try and help.

People were passing over

bottles of water.

But obviously there wasn't

a huge amount they could do.

There was one or two people

climbed over,

I think they had first aid skills.

We did start shouting across

saying, "We need some help here,

"first-aiders or people with

medical knowledge, training.

"We need some help here."

I was aware that there was

quite a lot of attention

around the middle of the carriage.

There was a guy who looked like

he was wedged in a hole,

trying very, very vigorously

to get out.

So we tried to help him get out,

I suppose, without thinking,

that's what you do.

He wasn't well. Um...

He wasn't well, I knew,

because he wasn't moving.

His limbs that I could see,

his arms were not flailing around.

But he had facial expression, um...

As I walked towards him, again,

I said who I was.

I did ask him his name but

he wasn't able to tell me a name.

'He said nothing in a verbal sense,

'but it was comforting to him

to have somebody talking to him.

'I climbed out of... beyond him

to the far side of the train, '

telling him I was going underneath

the train surface to see why he was,

could I release him from whatever

was keeping him trapped in there.

'And what I found was

the lower half of Stan's body

'was no longer attached to

the top half.'

And his torso

had been severed in that way,

by being blasted into the floor

from his seated position,

and obviously, it acted in

a very sort of knife-like way.

Very soon, and I don't think

I can even give you

a measure of 30 seconds,

a minute and a half, I don't know,

a very short space of time, um...

his life ended.

He stopped breathing,

and as you do that,

and the brain starts to shut down

and your muscles relax,

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