STORY: :: Greater London Authority
:: A memorial service is held in London to mark 20 years since the July 7 transit bombings
:: July 7, 2025
:: London, England
In the early hours of July 7 2005, less than 24 hours after it was announced London would host the 2012 Olympic Games, four young British Muslims traveled from northern England to the capital, where they detonated homemade bombs hidden in rucksacks on three underground trains and a bus during the morning rush-hour.
They killed themselves and 52 other people and wounded around 700 others. Citizens from Poland, Israel, Australia, France, Italy, Afghanistan, Nigeria, New Zealand and a Vietnamese-American were among the victims.
As names of the victims were read out, white flower petals symbolizing lives lost were dropped from the cathedral’s ceiling.