UK/FILE: Londoners mark third anniversary of the 7/7 attacks

Record ID: 721406

  • Title: UK/FILE: Londoners mark third anniversary of the 7/7 attacks
  • Date: 7th July 2008
  • Summary: (BN10) LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE JULY 7, 2005) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING ACROSS BRIDGE WITH BIG BEN IN BACKGROUND
  • Embargoed: 22nd July 2008 13:00
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  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA65898T66Y4JZFZ9P3DIJ80MIF
  • Story Text: Three years after four bombs ripped through London's public transport network, killing 52 innocent people, survivors and relatives of victims remember the attacks.
    Commuters and survivors stood shoulder to shoulder with the families of victims on Monday (July 7) to mark the third anniversary of the London bombings.
    Londoners crowded into King's Cross station to remember the 52 innocent people who were killed when four blasts ripped through London's public transport network. Over 700 people were wounded in the attacks.
    London mayor Boris Johnson joined Tessa Jowell, the Government minister for the capital, and transport chiefs at the ceremony.
    They laid flowers outside the station at 8.50am (0750GMT), the time when the first three bombs went off.
    Johnson laid a memorial card which read: "We honour the memory of those who died on 7/7 2005, we salute the courage of those who were injured and our thoughts and prayers are with all victims and their families."
    The pavements around King's Cross, from where the four suicide bombers set off on their terror campaign, were crammed with commuters as passers-by stopped to pay their respects.
    Relatives of victims and survivors also made personal pilgrimages to the sites of the four blasts - Russell Square, Aldgate and Edgware Road Tube stations, and Tavistock Square.
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