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Evening Standard
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Tamara Davison and Sian Baldwin

London 7/7 bombings: Why was there no public inquiry?

It has been 20 years since the London bombings claimed the lives of 52 people on a warm morning during rush hour in the capital.

On July 7, 2005, three suicide bombers struck the Underground network near Aldgate, Edgware Road, and Russell Square, while a fourth device was detonated on a London bus in a devastating coordinated attack that came to be known as the 7/7 bombings.

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