The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Tributes paid to 7/7 bombing victims on 15th anniversary
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick have paid tribute to the 52 people who died in the July 7 bombings, on the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks.
A series of explosions ripped through London in co-ordinated terrorist strikes in 2005.
The attacks on three London Underground trains and a doubledecker bus killed 52 people as well as the bombers, and more than 700 people were injured.
Dame Cressida and Mr Khan laid wreaths at the 7/7 memorial in Hyde Park at 8.50am yesterday morning – the time of the first bomb.
A message on the wreath laid by Mr Khan said: “15 years have passed, but the 52 innocent people who lost their lives on 7/7 remain in our hearts.
“Those who seek to divide our communities and destroy our way of life will never, ever, succeed.”
British Transport Police Chief Constable Paul Crowther, City of London Police Commissioner Ian Dyson and Mike Brown, commissioner for transport for London, were also among those who paid tribute to the victims.
A second group, including London
Fire Brigade Commissioner Andy Roe and London Ambulance Service’s director of integrated patient care, Athar Khan, laid wreaths at 9.47am, the time of the bomb on the bus in Tavistock Square.
A floral tribute was sent by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while a separate virtual service for families of the 52 people who died and the survivors was held yesterday afternoon.