Terror Attack? As Bus Explodes In London.

Raise the roof: The top of the bus was obliterated  © PA

A BUS explosion filmed for movie The Foreigner shook horrified onlookers after it echoed the 7/7 terror attacks.

Black smoke billowed from the London bus after it went up in flames on Lambeth Bridge.

The scene will appear in
Jackie Chan movie The Foreigner - which is currently in the production stage.

Smoke billowed from the movie prop after the controlled blast  © Wenn

Onlookers poured scorn on the filmmaker's choice of location, pointing out the scene's similarity to the horror of the 7/7 bombings.

Author and Twitter user Sohpie Kinsella posted: "Hey film types next time you blow up a bus on Lambeth bridge maybe tell us first so children in park aren't freaked?"

The bus was blown-up for a scene in Jackie Chan movie The Foreigner  ©Wenn

Another user with the Twitter handle @Senorita_KB tweeted: "Was far enough away from Lambeth Bridge to see bus blow up but not why, genuinely felt it in pit of my stomach."

The London Fire Brigade later tweeted confirming the explosion was for a film and not an attack.


In July 2005, four suicide bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Hussain and Germaine Lindsay, detonated four bombs in an attack designed to cause mass casualties.

Onlookers took to Twitter to express their outrage  ©PA

The atrocities killed 52 people and injured hundreds more.

Pierce Brosnan also stars in The Foreigner which is slated for release later in the year.

The Foreigner is an adaption of Stephen Leather's 1992 novel The Chinaman.

According to film website Cinema Blend Chan will play a Chinatown restaurant owner who takes matters into his own hands when his daughter is killed by the IRA.