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The London Underground station was evacuated at 1:25 p.m. Thursday afternoon in London after smoke was seen coming from the train, Sky News has reported.

"The entire area has been closed off," Simon Marks.

Emergency officials were said to be attending incidents at three stations, the Associated Press has reported.

Police say incidents were reported at Oval, Warren Street and Shepherds Bush Underground stations.

No casualties have been reported.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Emergency services personnel are attending three different Tube stations in central London following reports of "incidents," police said on Thursday.

A Scotland Yard spokesperson told CNN that Warren Street, Shepherds Bush and Oval stations had all been evacuated.

There are no reports of any casualties at this stage, sources told the UK Press Association.

London Underground confirmed that services on three lines -- Victoria, Northern and Hammermith and City -- were suspended following the incidents, according to PA.

No further information is yet available. Passengers at Warren Street reported seeing smoke but police could not confirm this.

One Victoria Line passenger said a traveler's rucksack exploded on the Tube outside Warren Street station.

Ivan McCracken told Sky News: "I was in a middle carriage and the train was not far short of Warren Street station when suddenly the door between my carriage and the next one burst open and dozens of people started rushing through. Some were falling, there was mass panic.

"It was difficult to get the story from any of them what had happened but when I got to ground level there was an Italian young man comforting an Italian girl who told me he had seen what had happened.

"He said a man was carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack.

"The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that point everyone rushed from the carriage."

The reports came two weeks to the day since bombs on three Underground trains in London and a double-decker bus killed 56 people including four bombers.

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

I can see this is going to go on for quite a while...

What annoys me is the BBC are reporting a man's rucksack went pop and then he got off at the next station and ran off.

I would personally arrest everybody on that tube for assisting a terrorist because they didn't stop him and beat him to a pulp.

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OK, perhaps beat him to the point where the inteligence services could finish him off.

Welcome to London...

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Hmmm...more al Queda, or copycat??

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Well, it seems none of them worked properly, so I'd assume it wasn't Al Qaeda

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

Well there is a history of occasional botched terrorist attacks. The Iraqi that mailed a letter bomb then fell victim to it when it was returned for insuficient postage, and the occasional Pali suicide bomber who triggers a bomb belt and only the detonator goes off..removing his or her hand & forearm.

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It doesn't matter that the bombs didn't go off.

What matters is that the terrorists got into place to detonate them to begin with.

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That was a Palestinian. It's documented in a couple places.

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-38.html

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

Ok it was a Palistinian that was killed by his own letter bomb. Doesn't make him less an idiot.

Snipe: Sad they got in, sadder still that three suspects walked away and one was able to run from a tube and it's station without anyone even trying to catch him.

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