7/7 Victim's Father: Bus Blast 'Insensitive'

The father of one of the victims of the 7/7 terrorist attacks has condemned as “insensitive” the blowing up of a bus for a Jackie Chan film.

John Taylor, whose 24-year-old daughter Carrie was killed at Aldgate Station on 7 July 2005 told the Daily Mirror he was aware a controlled explosion would take place but not that the stunt would involve a London bus.

He said: “You can totally understand why some people would be alarmed seeing this. Fair enough there is filming that goes on in the city but this seems particularly insensitive.”

Some Londoners were left confused as they saw the bus go up in flames as it travelled along Lambeth Bridge on Sunday.

Author Sophie Kinsella tweeted: “Hey film types, next time you blow up a bus on Lambeth Bridge maybe tell us first so children in park aren’t freaked?”

Conservative MP for Mid Worcestershire Nigel Huddleston posted a video of the explosion on Twitter with the message: “Anyone worried about the exploding bus on Lambeth Bridge just now? It was just for a movie.”

One user responded to the MP’s video with the message: “Surprised with current terrorist activities that this got the go-ahead.”

Some people thought the explosion was similar to the bomb blast that ripped through a double-decker bus at the junction of Tavistock Square and Upper Woburn Place in London on 7 July.

That bus had been diverted from its normal route between Marble Arch and Hackney because of a road closure in the wake of the earlier Tube bombings.

The device carried by bomber Hasib Hussain, 18, killed 14 people, including himself.