Brian Paddick, assistant deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police has just explained to a press conference that the bomb which exploded on a London bus in Woburn place may have gone off early.
“British police said a bomb that blew the roof off a London double-decker bus on Thursday morning may have been destined for the capital’s underground network, which was rocked by three explosions earlier.
“The fourth bomb may have been intended for an underground train,” Brian Paddick, the assistant deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police told a press conference.
The bus blast occurred about an hour after the first underground explosion. At least 33 people were confirmed dead from the blasts in the capital. ”
I’m not *sure* what we can deduce from this conjecture on the part of a senior police officer, although lots of possibilities are flying round my head.
I was listening to that press conference at work, and I think the Reuters reporter only used half of Paddick’s comment on the bus bomb.
It sounded like a reporter asked if the bus bomb could have been intended for a train, to which Paddick responded that it may have been, but it did go off half an hour later, and at any rate they were in no position to know anything for certain at this point in time.
Thank you Anna, it is very different to say something cannot be excluded, than to say it is probable.