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Old June 21st 18, 04:22 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Default Explosion at Southgate tube station

On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 09:04:34 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at
08:43:19 on Wed, 20 Jun 2018, NY remarked:

Not thought to be terror related.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-Station.html


Now reported to be an explosion of a battery in a power tool.


Lithium, presumably.

Or Ni-Cad. Still in older tools and ISTR even some new ones. They used
to occasionally blow up telephones around 30y ago so the larger ones
in power tools should have a fair bit of oomph when they
self-destruct.