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00:00At 8.49am on July 7th 2005, three separate suicide bombs went off on the London Underground
00:07on trains close to Edgware Road, Kings Cross and Liverpool Street stations.
00:12An hour later, a fourth bomb was detonated on the top deck of a No. 30 bus at Tavistock Square,
00:18close to one of the tube bombings.
00:21A total of 52 people of 18 different nationalities were killed in the bombings
00:25and more than 770 were injured.
00:28Four bombers also killed themselves.
00:32The rush hour attacks rocked London the morning after the city celebrated being awarded the 2012 Olympic Games.
00:39The bombings were carried out by four British Islamists.
00:43Though Al-Qaeda later claimed responsibility for the attacks,
00:47British authorities said its links to the bombers were inconclusive.
00:51The attacks were one of a series of bombings across Europe carried out in the wake of the September 11th attacks
00:58and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
01:02There was an attempt at a follow-up attack two weeks later on July 21st,
01:06but four separate bombings failed to detonate.
01:09One person died of an asthma attack in the aftermath.
01:13A panicked response to that attack by security services resulted in the shooting dead the next day
01:19of an innocent Brazilian national Jean-Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station
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