The Metropolitan police confirmed 33 deaths in the three tube blasts, but did not confirm the number of people killed on a double-decker bus gutted by a bomb. The London ambulance service said it had treated 45 people with serious or critical injuries, including burns and amputations, and another 300 people with minor injuries. London hospitals reported treating hundreds of wounded.

Police said no one remained trapped on tube trains, and there was no intelligence that any further bombs were on the network.

Prime Minister Tony Blair said it was "reasonably clear" that the blasts were the work of terrorists, and added that it was "particularly barbaric" that attacks had been timed to coincide with the start of the G8 summit. The prime minister left the summit venue, Gleneagles, in Scotland, to return to London.

Speaking at Gleneagles, with the leaders of the G8 nations lined up behind him, Blair said, "We condemn utterly these barbaric attacks.

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