Fifty-two people were killed as they travelled through London on public transport when four al-Qaeda linked bombers launched their attack and detonated bombs during rush hour on July 7, 2005.
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Families of the victims also joined David Cameron and Boris Johnson as they laid wreaths at the Hyde Park memorial in the morning.
Speaking of her ordeal for the first time, and now aged 24, she said: “All of us lost our innocence on that day, our naivety, the thought that “something like that could never happen to me” or even to London”.
In the past decade, successive governments have strengthened security powers and improved the way the emergency services respond to attacks after criticism of severe delays.
Despite the new measures, the head of the MI5 domestic intelligence agency, Andrew Parker, warned that the risk remained high.
He described the “disgusting” murders 10 years ago as an “enduring reminder” of what his organisation “is striving every day to prevent”. The attacks are known simply as 7/7.
Others were speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow and MP Harriet Harman. “We grieve your loss and will honour your memory for ever”. Whilst I hope that we will never need to deliver such a response again, if we do we will be ready.
Hanif Malik, the chief executive of the Hamara Centre, in the Beeston area of the city, told the non-denominational ceremony at Leeds Civic Hall: “Ten years on from that atrocity we all vividly recall our shock, our horror, our dismay at discovering that Leeds was linked to those tragic events”.
At 11am, a service will take place at St Paul’s Cathedral to remember those who died.
Aaron Grant-Booker, a young Londoner, said: “When four bombs exploded on 7 July 2005, lives were destroyed and the flame of hope faltered for what seemed like an eternal moment”.
Mourners will today mark the tenth anniversary since terrorist attacks in London claimed the lives of 52 people and injured hundreds more.
Buses pass by as family members attend a remembrance ceremony at the spot where 13 people were killed in the London bombings, July 7, 2015, in London.
At Edgware Road station, survivors laid flowers and gathered alongside families of victims in the ticket hall for a minute’s silence at 8.50am.
A minute’s silence will be held during the service and also on the London transport network at 11:30 local time.
British mosques hosted “peace iftars” ahead of the anniversary and more events were scheduled for Tuesday evening including one at Hyde Park where Prince William, Duke of Cambridge is expected to attend. I still am. I just came up here today to pay my respects.
Ms Putnam, from Cambridgeshire, said her overriding feeling will be sadness as she remembers the 52 people who were killed.
“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.
“Everyone in London remembers where they were on that day. The fact that I’m not is random luck”.
“That’s not the spirit we saw on 7 July. They came from all over the United Kingdom and all over the world”.
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Ten years ago in London, Mohammed Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Hussain and Germaine Lindsay detonated bombs that killed 52 people.
