Casualties of the 7 July 2005 London bombings
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| 2005 London bombings | ||
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| Overview | Timeline | |
| Rumours | ||
| 7 July 2005 | ||
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| Response | ||
| Memorials | ||
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| Liverpool Street to Aldgate (Circle Line) |
King's Cross to Russell Square (Piccadilly Line) |
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| Edgware Road (Circle Line) |
Tavistock Square (bus) |
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| 21 July 2005 | ||
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| Shepherd's Bush (H&C Line) |
Warren Street (Victoria Line) |
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| Oval (Northern Line) |
Bethnal Green (bus) |
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52 people and the four bombers were killed in the 7 July 2005 London bombings. About 700 people were injured; some 350 were treated on the scene, and 350 in hospital. 100 required overnight hospitalisation or more. 22 were seriously or critically injured[1].
On July 10, 2005, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair announced that family liaison officers had been assigned to some 74 families.
At least 90 injuries were reported from Aldgate Station. Ninety-five of the injured were taken to the Royal London Hospital where they were treated; 17 were in critical condition. Many others were treated at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. Individuals who were wounded and walking were treated at the scene; an eyewitness reported that they were "operating on injured people on the concourse at Liverpool Street station" (see [2]).
Paramedics were sent down into the tube system to search for more casualties. St. John Ambulance and the British Red Cross was called out to assist the London Ambulance Service ([3]), and hospitals had to call in off-duty staff, plus doctors from as far afield as Hampshire and Oxfordshire. The ticket hall and waiting area of King's Cross station was used as a temporary hospital for the victims of the Piccadilly Line explosion. Air ambulances were used extensively to provide rapid transportation of specialist medics to the scenes of the explosions. A number of London buses were also used to transport the "walking wounded" to hospital.
Many of the casualties (dead and injured) were foreign nationals, including people from Sierra Leone, Australia, South Africa, Colombia, Poland, Romania, New Zealand, Israel and China. The first fatality to be formally identified was Susan Levy, 53, of Newgate Street Village. There were some difficulties when medical personnel needed to communicate with non-English speakers.
The retrieval of bodies from the Piccadilly Line tunnel was hampered by dangerous conditions, including asbestos, rats and temperatures that reached 60° Celsius (140° Fahrenheit). Because it is a single-line tunnel, there was little room for workers to pass on the outside of the train, therefore they had to work their way through the wreckage, or approach it the long way along the tunnel from Russell Square. There were initial concerns that the deep tunnel might have become unstable, although in fact there was no long-term damage to tunnels at any of the sites.
The four bombers died in the explosions: the attacks are the first suicide bombings in the history of the UK (see[4]).
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[edit] Fatalities
Victims of the bombing, with photographs and brief biographies: Link [5]
[edit] Liverpool Street/ Aldgate Circle line train: 7 victims and bomber
- Lee Baisden, 34, accountant from Romford (East London)
- Benedetta Ciaccia, 30, business analyst born in Rome and living in Norwich
- Richard Ellery, 21, camera shop worker from Ipswich
- Richard Gray, 24, tax manager from Ipswich with a wife and two children
- Anne Moffat, 48, marketing executive for the Girl Guides from Harlow
- Fiona Stevenson, 29, criminal lawyer from Danbury, Essex
- Carrie Taylor, 24, from Billericay, Essex, who worked for the Royal Society of Arts
- Shehzad Tanweer, 22, bomber
[edit] Edgware Road tube station: 6 victims and bomber
- Michael Stanley Brewster, 53, from Swanwick, Derbyshire
- Jon Downey, 34, HR Systems Development Officer of Wolverton, Milton Keynes
- David Foulkes, 22, newspaper trainee from Oldham
- Colin Morley, 52, facilitator and marketing professional from Finchley
- Jennifer Nicholson, 24, from Bristol and the University of Reading
- Laura Webb, 29, of Islington (North London)
- Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, bomber
[edit] Piccadilly line train (King's Cross St Pancras / Russell Square): 26 victims and bomber
- James Adams, 32, from Peterborough, a Christian Deacon at Breton Baptist Church
- Samantha Badham, 36, from Tottenham, partner of Lee Harris (q.v.)
- Lee Harris, 30, from Tottenham, partner of Samantha Badham (q.v.); died over a week later.
- Phil Beer, 22, hairstylist from Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
- Anna Brandt, 42, originally from Poland, of Wood Green (North London)
- Ciaran Cassidy, 22, shopkeeper from Finsbury Park (North London)
- Rachelle Lieng Siong Chung For Yuen, 27, of Mill Hill (North London), originally from Mauritius.
- Elizabeth Daplyn, 26, manager at University College Hospital who was living in Highgate (North London)
- Arthur Edlin Frederick, 60, of Seven Sisters (North London)
- Karolina Glueck, 29, IT consultant, originally from Poland
- Gamze Gunoral, 24, student originally from Turkey living in North London
- Ojara Ikeagwu, 55, social worker from Luton
- Emily Jenkins, 24, office worker from Richmond upon Thames (South West London)
- Adrian Johnson, 37, Burberry product technical manager from Nottinghamshire
- Helen Jones, 28, accountant of Holloway (North London). who grew up near Lockerbie, Scotland.
- Susan Levy, 53, of the village of Newgate Street, Hertfordshire
- Shelley Marie Mather, 26, receptionist with dual New Zealand and Irish nationality living in London
- Michael Matsushita, 37, tour guide born in Vietnam who grew up in The Bronx, New York City, USA
- James Mayes, 28, of Islington (North London)
- Behnaz Mozakka, 47, Iranian biomedical officer from Finchley (North London)
- Mihaela "Michelle" Otto, 37, dental technician from Mill Hill (North London), originally from Romania
- Atique Sharifi, 24, Afghan refugee from the Taliban working in a pizza takeaway
- Ihab Slimane, 19, waiter from Lyon, who moved to Finsbury Park (North London) a couple of months before the attacks.
- Christian "Njoya" Small, advertising worker from Walthamstow (East London)
- Monika Suchocka, 23, accountant from Archway (North London), originally from Poland
- Mala Trivedi
- Jamal (Germaine) Lindsay, 19, bomber
[edit] Tavistock Square bus: 13 victims and bomber
- Anthony Fatayi-Williams, 26, an oil executive from Nigeria, grandson of that country's former Chief Justice
- Jamie Gordon, 30, of Enfield (North London)
- Giles Hart, 55, a BT engineer from Hornchurch (Essex)
- Marie Hartley, 34, of Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire
- Miriam Hyman, 32, picture researcher from Hampstead Garden Suburb (North West London)
- Shahara Akhter Islam, 20, from Plaistow (East London)
- Neetu Jain, 37, Software Developer from Hendon (North London)
- Sam Ly, 28, originally from Melbourne (Australia); died 15 July 2005 in hospital
- Shayanuja Parathasangary, 30, Sri Lankan-born postal worker of Kensal Rise (North London)
- Anat Rosenberg, 39, was an Israeli expatriate.
- Philip Stuart Russell, 29, of Kennington (South London)
- William Wise, 54
- Gladys Wyndowa, 51, a cleaner from Chadwell Heath (East London)
- Hasib Hussain, 18, bomber
