7 July 2005 London bombings

7 July 2005 London bombings
Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe
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Location	London, England
Date	7 July 2005; 18 years ago (2005-07-07) 8:49–9:47 a.m. (UTC+1)
Target	Public aboard London Underground trains and a bus in Central London
Attack type	Suicide bombings, mass murder, terrorism
Weapons	Improvised explosive devices
Deaths	56 (including the 4 bombers)
Injured	784
Perpetrators	Hasib Hussain Mohammad Sidique Khan Germaine Lindsay Shehzad Tanweer
Motive	Islamic Extremism

The 7 July 2005 London bombings, also referred to as 7/7, were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamist terrorists that targeted commuters travelling on London's public transport during the morning rush hour.

Three terrorists separately detonated three homemade bombs in quick succession aboard London Underground trains in Inner London. Later, a fourth terrorist detonated another bomb on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square.^[1] The train bombings occurred on the Circle line near Aldgate and at Edgware Road, and on the Piccadilly line near Russell Square.

Apart from the bombers, 52 UK residents of 18 different nationalities were killed and more than 700 were injured in the attacks. It was the UK's deadliest terrorist incident since the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 near Lockerbie, and the UK's first Islamist suicide attack.

The explosions were caused by improvised explosive devices made from concentrated hydrogen peroxide and pepper, packed into backpacks. The bombings were followed two weeks later by a series of attempted attacks that failed to cause injury or damage.