New photo indicates bomb came from underneath subway car (click to enlarge).
A new photo of the London 7/7 subway bombing, released by The UK Daily Mail on the 4th year anniversary of the terrorist attack, indicates the bomb that blew up the train was placed underneath the car and not inside it.
The new photo brings doubt to the widely-accepted belief that Muslims placed bombs inside the subway car during rush hour, and corroborates early eyewitness reports that the explosion came from underneath the train.
London Guardian journalist Mark Honigsbaum interviewed eyewitnesses who told him that “tiles, the covers on the floor of the train, suddenly flew up, raised up,” when the bombs went off. Honigsbaum later said that the quotes were taken out of context when they were cited as evidence that the bombs were planted under the trains.
Another 7/7 survivor, Bruce Lait, was sitting nearest to the bomb when it exploded. He told The Cambridge Evening News about what happened:
“We’d been on there for a minute at most and then something happened. It was like a huge electricity surge which knocked us out and burst our eardrums. I can still hear that sound now,” he said.
He and Crystal were helped out of the carriage. As they made their way out, a policeman pointed out where the bomb had been.
“The policeman said ‘mind that hole, that’s where the bomb was’. The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train. They seem to think the bomb was left in a bag, but I don’t remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag,” he said.
Map of the 7/7 terrorist attacks (click to enlarge).
The eyewittness account of Lait, who was a victim of the Aldgate Tube bombing, corroborates the new picture, which is from the Russell Square tube bombing. In total, four bombs went off that tragic morning, three at different subway statins and a fourth on a double-decker bus.
Questions surrounding the 7/7 bombings have been met with a stonewall response from the British government, leading victims’ relatives to call for an independent inquiry.
Scotland Yard’s former head of counter-terrorism Andy Hayman, who was Assistant Commissioner for Special Operations at the time of the bombings in 2005, has also publicly called for an independent investigation into the bombings.
“Incidents of less gravity have attracted the status of a public inquiry — train crashes, a death in custody, and even other terrorist attacks. How can there not be a full, independent public inquiry into the deaths of 52 commuters on London’s transport system?,” said Hayman.
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