Survivor recalls horror of 7/7 bombing on packed London Tube: ‘I wasn’t sure if I was dead or alive’
A man caught in destructive 24/7 bombings remembered the sadness of the attack.
Sudhesh Daad was working in financial services on Thursday, July 7, 2005, when the most deadly terrorist incident of London emerged. Less than 8: 50 in the morning, he joined the other vehicles in the front car on the front car on the train of Piccadilly line from King’s Cross to east.
The train tunnel suddenly stopped a few minutes after entering the Russell Square. Germaine Lindsay, also known as Abdullah Shaheed Jamal, detonated a bomb, killed himself and 26 people and left more than 340 injured.
Remembering the moment when the bomb exploded, Mr. Dahad said: “My first thought was that I was not in a nightmare.
“And then I actually noticed no, I am not in a nightmare.
“I wasn’t sure if I was dead or alive.”
Speaking in a documentary series about the attacks on BBC Two, Dahad said he was afraid that there may be another attack in the form of a chemical weapon after the first shock.
“The lights went out, the power was completely closed,” he said. “I immediately felt intuitively a terrorist attack. I didn’t know that 25 people were dead in that car around me at that time. I just thought we were alive.
“So, if there was a terrorist attack and I didn’t kill anyone.
“The smoke began to drag the carrier down, I think he must have come out of the wall of the tunnels, and perhaps I thought it was a kind of toxic gas, and I think many people thought the same because the people standing with me went back to the ground thinking that they could avoid it.”
Mr. Dahad joined a series of attacks to share stories of attacks, where three tubes and a bus were targeted by suicide bombers, killed 52 people and injured more than 770 people.
On the morning of July 7, explosions were reported in three tubes in one minute. First, after leaving the platform at the Liverpool Street station, an apartment line to east occurred on the train. Eight people died, including suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer.
A circle line to the west in Edgeware Road exploded by Mohammad Sidique Khan and killed seven people, including himself. Shortly after the targeting of the tube with Mr. Dahad.
Shortly after an hour, the bus number 30 exploded by 18 -year -old Hasib Hussain in Tavistock Square, killed 14 people, including himself and was injured more than 110.
