7 July London bombings: What happened that day? The bombings The bombers' journey began at 04:00 BST as three of the group - Mohammad Sidique Khan , 30, Shehzad Tanweer , 22, and 18-year-old Hasib Hussain - left Leeds, West Yorkshire, in a rented car bound for Luton, Bedfordshire. There they met their fourth accomplice, 19-year-old Germaine Lindsay , before heading to the capital by train. They went on to detonate four devices - three on the Underground and one on a double-decker bus. Edgware Road attack: six killed Three of the four bombs went off just before 08:50 BST on Tube trains that had departed King's Cross. Ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan detonated his device on a westbound Circle Line train heading towards Paddington. The bomb exploded at Edgware Road in the second carriage close to the second set of double doors. It killed six people. In 2011, inquests into the deaths heard that although the b...
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