The announcement that the cityof London would host the 2012
Olympic Games was made on
Wednesday July 6th 2005.
The following morning, as the UK celebrated this news, a series of
co-ordinated terrorist attacks upon
the capital's transport system
targeted innocent civilians.
The first bomb exploded at 8.50
am, on a Circle Line train, between Liverpool Street and Aldgate stations.
The second device detonated on
another Circle Line train leaving
Edgware Road. A third bomber struck a train leaving King's Cross, on the Piccadilly Line. About an hour later,
a fourth explosion ripped through a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square.
Fifty-six people, including the four suicide bombers, were killed in the
attacks, and about 700 more were injured.
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