It was terrible. The bus went to pieces. There were so many bodies on the floor. The back was completely gone, it was blown off completely and a dead body was hanging out and there were dead bodies on the road, it was a horrible thing. I can’t believe it, I can’t even believe I survived it. There was panic and everyone was running for their lives. I saw a lady coming towards me soaked in blood. Everyone was in confusion.
— Ayobami Bello
The most extreme thing I first noticed as I walked to work was that there was someone in bits on the road.
— Dr Laurence Buckman
I saw three bodies on the track. I couldn’t look, it was so horrific. I think one was moving but I’m not too sure. I couldn’t look, it was so horrific. There were also, I think, some bodies in the carriage, some were moving but I couldn’t really look.
— Scott Wenbourne
A mother with her two small children sat next to me and cried desperately. When passengers were evacuated, there were body parts scattered around them.
— Cornelia Berg
I did not want to move towards the doors as I would have had to walk towards the bodies.
— Teve Talevski
[taken from the print edition of The Times.]
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