7/7 Comes Back To Haunt London
Ankit Gupta - All Headline News Staff Writer London, England (AHN) - For England's capital and for Londoners, it is a day of remembrance. A two-minute silence at noon, memorial plaques at all the blast sites and a public ceremony in the evening will mark the first anniversary of the London attacks. However, as the city looks back on the day when four near-simultaneous blasts ripped through its busy railway stations, killing 50 and injuring over 700 in 20 minutes, the question about London's safety still remains. While the city seems to have moved on from the 7/7 nightmare, concerns remain. "I don't fear the recurrence of the attacks. What I fear is crime which I have already confronted," a Bangladeshi girl in London told CNN. London police investigations have been on a mammoth scale since last year. After 12,000 statements and 6,000 hours of closed-circuit TV recordings, officials claim at least three more terror plots have been disrupted in the past 12 months. While a government report in May denied that there was any intelligence lapse, it still admits that poor communication and lack of resources hampered rescue operations after the attack.
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