In , inquests into the deaths heard that although the bomb went off at BST, the emergency services only reached the station at Inquest testimony revealed the horror of the explosion's aftermath, but also tales of great bravery and survival. Daniel Biddle, who still has a 20p piece lodged in his thigh bone and has had other shrapnel, including his door keys, removed by surgeons, recalled seeing a "big, white flash".
Ms Al-Wafai, who suffered small injuries to her arm and thigh, was on her way to a job interview when the blast happened, severely injuring a woman to her left. Covered in blood, Ms Al-Wafai walked away unaided from the scene. Emerging from the Tube, she found staff from a nearby Marks and Spencer store helping survivors.
She only realised she had lost a shoe when she arrived home. Mr Tulloch had returned from Australia a few days before the bombing and had yet to go home to Cardiff, so was carrying three bags with him.
A hard suitcase by his feet saved him from serious injury. Prof Tulloch's left ear drum was perforated and shrapnel from the blast is still embedded in his head. Daniel Biddle, running late for work, was standing close to plot ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan when the bomb exploded. He described seeing Khan's arm move quickly and then a 'big, white flash'.
The construction manager was blown from the carriage and lost both legs, his left eye and his spleen. He was helped by a fellow passenger who made tourniquets from his belt and shirt. A 20p piece remains lodged in Mr Biddle's thigh bone, and other shrapnel, including his door keys, was removed by surgeons. David Gardner, a management accountant at the Evening Standard, lost his left leg and spleen in the attacks.
He was blown off his seat and onto the carriage floor, where he drifted in and out of consciousness while fellow passenger Jason Rennie, an ex-Army officer, made a tourniquet for his badly-damaged left leg. Mr Gardner had been due to direct a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and was reading the script when the bomb exploded.
The explosion at the rear of the second carriage killed seven people. Survivor Philip Duckworth was so close to Tanweer that he was blinded in one eye by a fragment of the bomber's shin-bone.
Martine Wiltshire, nee Wright, who competed in the London Paralympics, was just feet away from the bomber when the device went off. She lost both legs in the blast. Ms Wiltshire wept as she told the inquest how she owed her life to off-duty police officer Elizabeth Kenworthy, who gave her a belt to apply as a tourniquet to stem the bleeding.
Airport worker Andrew Brown, who lost a leg in the bombing, blacked out for 15 minutes after the blast. A subsequent investigation found that two of the young men had been under surveillance and had possible links to Al Qaeda, but the extent of the terrorist group's involvement is not known. The four used easily available materials to make their bombs.
The following year the then Home Secretary interior minister John Reid described the bombers as "ordinary British citizens" who were motivated by "anger at perceived injustices by the west against Muslims and a desire for martyrdom". The atrocity prompted a rethink in British counter-terrorism policy, which thereafter focused much more on "homegrown" threats as well as risks from abroad. There was a growing awareness of the danger of Islamist radicalisation among Muslims, inspired by the Syrian war and other events.
Around an hour later at 9. The explosions left 52 innocent people dead and over injured. Chaos erupted across the capital, echoing the horrific terrorist attacks faced by New York four years before, on 11 September The worst bombing in London since WWII , it brought the city's public transport network to a standstill, with the complete closure of the underground system and Zone 1 bus networks forcing thousands of commuters to walk the long journey home.
In the immediate aftermath of the bombings victims on the tube used fire extinguishers to break down train doors. Passengers on the Piccadilly line train between King's Cross to Russell Square who were able to walk felt their way in the darkness down the length of the tunnel back to ground level.
Confusion and shock struck London on this summer morning with the three separate incidents initially being blamed on train collisions, electrical failures and power surges.
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