http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...run-hide-tell-police-anti-terror-leaflet.html
Run in a crowded railway station?
It seems to me whoever wrote this leaflet is perhaps not aware what happened at Bethnal Green in 1943 where 173 people were killed in a crush to get into an as yet unopened tube station being used as an air raid shelter after an air raid started.
The Bethnal Green Tube tragedy
A picture of the leaflet is on the original link at the top
Daily Mail said:Commuters told to 'run, hide and tell' in leaflet distributed by police warning of Mumbai-style gun terror attacks at train stations
- New campaign by police to encourage public to be aware of terror threat
- Leaflets handed out at stations telling passengers what to do in attack
- Security services say they've foiled 'marauding gun attacks' in recent years
- But some commuters have criticised the leaflets as 'scaremongering'
Run in a crowded railway station?
It seems to me whoever wrote this leaflet is perhaps not aware what happened at Bethnal Green in 1943 where 173 people were killed in a crush to get into an as yet unopened tube station being used as an air raid shelter after an air raid started.
The Bethnal Green Tube tragedy
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---Daily Mail said:The Bethnal Green Tube tragedy saw 173 people crushed to death
In total, 173 people - mostly women and children - were asphyxiated in an accident so shocking that it was years before the public was allowed to know the full truth....
...at 8.27pm, the Victoria Park battery let rip with its new rockets. The noise nearly knocked Jimmy Hunt off his feet. On that top stairwell, it caused chaos. "It made a great 'whoosh'. We'd never heard anything like it," says Alf."People started shouting, 'It's a bomb!' There was screaming and a great shove...."
Adults fell helplessly on children. There were screams, then groans, then whimpers and then nothing. Piled ten deep, people just ran out of breath..... But up at street level, three buses had just screeched to a halt, disgorging yet more people wanting shelter.
A picture of the leaflet is on the original link at the top
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