A minute’s silence was held across the country at 11.30 a.m. local time (1030GMT) and the capital’s public transport network halted to observe the silence.
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Within three minutes of 8.50am, Tanweer detonated his bomb at Aldgate, Khan set his device off at Edgware Road and Lindsay blew himself up between King’s Cross and Russell Square.
Today, as London remembered the victims of the 7/7 bombings ten years ago, a moment of quiet reflection at the service of commemoration at St Paul’s Cathedral saw a cascade of petals fall on the congregation below.
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, right, and London Mayor Boris Johnson walk through the 7/7 memorial in Hyde Park to lay wreaths in London, Tuesday, July 7, 2015. The tribute book is also very revealing about the character of the London which the bombers attacked.
‘They will never beat us’.
Prince William is expected to attend a service in Hyde Park, with police, ambulance and fire crews laying wreaths at the site.
Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson laid wreaths at a memorial for the victims in Hyde Park.
Britain will on Tuesday mark 10 years since the London bombings with a minute’s silence for the 52 victims, less than a fortnight after an attack in Tunisia highlighted the ongoing Islamist threat.
Families and friends of those who died gathered at the exact spot the bomb went off, where a small plaque records the names of the dead.
“Sometimes I feel people are so hell-bent on trying to make a point about terrorism not breaking us that they forget about all the people who got caught up in it. Not for my sake, but for the people who were killed on those days and their families”.
She said her mother does not swear and recalled her saying: “Sugar. When heaven took our angel back, they left two broken hearts”. “May we never forget”. “We can not”.
The 7 July attacks occurred the day after London had won its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, which had highlighted the city’s multicultural reputation. “I was on the Tube”. It looked like it was going down into the ground, but it wasn’t.
“There was a great sorrow that their boys had done such a horrific act and I wanted to be the bridge of that pain”, she said of Beeston. “She’s an irreplaceable person in my life”.
The Prime Minister said: “Today the country comes together to remember the victims of one of the deadliest terrorist atrocities on mainland Britain”.
Despite the national flavor of the ceremonies, in many ways the day was so personal for so many.
LONDON – It’s been a decade since Esther Hyman’s sister, Miriam, was killed when four suicide bombers unleashed carnage on this city’s public transportation system in the worst terrorist attack on British soil.
But they are still struggling to address the problem of radicalisation exposed by the bombings, which were carried out not by foreign fighters but by four young men who were inspired by Al Qaida.
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Ten years on, the devastation has not been forgotten, but what so many survivors and rescue workers also remember is the solidarity that followed.
