7. 7 July 2005 London Bombings
On July 7, 2005, central London faced a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks that targeted the civilians commuting in the morning rush hour by public transport system. In the country’s very first suicide attack, 52 civilians were killed, alongside the 4 British Islamist bombers who detonated four bombs, three of them aboard London Underground trains and the fourth in in a double-decker bus. Apart from the deaths, another 700 people were severely injured in the attacks around the city. This series of attacks, often referred to as 7/7, is dubbed the worst terror attack in the country in decades. A London based al Qaeda group is believed to have played an important role in this.
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