Britain commemorates 2005 London bombings

Buses pass by as family members attend a remembrance ceremony at the spot where 13 people were killed in the London bombings, July 7, 2015, in London.

Wreaths will be laid in the morning at the 7/7 memorial in Hyde Park and other locations, including King’s Cross St Pancras station and Tavistock Square.

Buses and trains will come to a halt where possible for the moment’s silence in recognition of the losses suffered on the public transit network.

London marks the 10 anniversary of the terror attacks on the 7 July with a service in St Paul’s Cathedral later today.

At St Paul’s the Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Richard Chartres, said the attacks had affected people from all over the world.

“The best way to defy the terrorist is to increase our bonds of unity, not to single out any one group of people for blame or opprobrium, especially if they had nothing to do with such carnage and have actively spoken out against it”, The Guardian newspaper reported Shuja Shafi, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, as saying.

Prince Andrew and London Mayor Boris Johnson were also present for the service, which included reflections on each of the four bombing sites. “Terrosism won’never break us”.

The capital’s Hyde Park, where a memorial to those killed on July 7, 2005, stands, was the focus of two ceremonies.

David Cameron has said the Tunisian beach massacre showed the danger remains but vowed the nation would not be cowed by extremists.

Survivor Tim Coulson concluded by reading out the names of all those killed.

He said the terrorists “didn’t in any way change the fundamentals of London and what makes this city great”, adding: “Indeed, it’s gone from strength to strength in the 10 years since. May we never forget”. “We can not”.

The start of play at London’s iconic Wimbledon tennis tournament has been delayed by 45 minutes to allow spectators and players to observe the moment’s silence.

The bombings happened the day after the worldwide Olympic Committee announced London would be hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.

“I was expecting to die”, Colin Pettet, a survivor of the Aldgate explosion, told Sky News. I was on the tube.’. It looked like it was going down into the ground, but it wasn’t.

The anniversary comes less than a fortnight after an attack in Tunisia highlighted the ongoing militant threat.

Commuters around the city are being urged to “walk together” to finish their morning bus or underground commute one stop early and finish the last section of their travel on foot.

Britain fell silent on Tuesday to pay tribute to the 52 innocent people who lost their lives in July 7 outrage a decade ago.

The four suicide bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Jermaine Lindsay, 19, had met at Luton and travelled to Kings Cross station where, at 8 30am, they were seen hugging before splitting up.

Also at 8.50am, survivors and victims’ relatives laid flowers and held a minute’s silence at Edgware Road station.

She wept as she spoke to other survivors and bereaved families in Hyde Park, where they were joined by the Duke of Cambridge. It’s a day when we recall the incredible resolve and resolution of Londoners and the United Kingdom.