Terrified Londoners call 999 as double decker bus explodes yards from Parliament in chilling echoes of 7/7 attacks - but it's only a scene from new Jackie Chan film

Petrified Londoners dialled 999 yesterday after a bus was blown up close to Parliament for a new movie stunt reminiscent of the 7/7 attacks, MailOnline can reveal today.

Scotland Yard has confirmed that two people contacted the emergency services fearing London was under attack when the red double decker burst into a fireball for Jackie Chan's film The Foreigner.

The bus was blown up on Lambeth Bridge but producers for the film also starring former Bond, Pierce Brosnan, failed to warned locals, meaning many including a group of children playing in a park nearby were terrified.

A Met spokesman told MailOnline that they received two calls at around 11.30am yesterday but their team knew there was filming on the bridge and were able to reassure the panicked callers.

The explosion will have brought back terrible memories for many who remember the 2005 suicide bombings, where 52 died including 13 in a bus on Tavistock Square.

John Taylor, whose daughter Carrie, 24, died at Aldgate tube in the suicide bomb attack, was working nearby at the Tate Britain art gallery. He said: 'You can totally understand why some would be alarmed seeing this. It seems particularly insensitive.'

error: A bus exploded on Lambeth Bridge yesterday for the filming of new Jackie Chan movie, The Foreigner which features former James Bond, Pierce Brosnan - but witnesses ended up calling 999

 Dramatic: The explosion caught the eye of passers-by who were in the area as fire and smoke rose from the bus on Lambeth Bridge 

Chilling: The aftermath of the yesterday's explosion left many terrified and the result looked very similar to the 7/7 attack on Tavistock Square, right

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