LONDON (AP) -- Silence fell across Britain on Friday as it marked the first anniversary of the July 7 London transit attacks, western Europe's first suicide bombings, which killed 52 people along with the attackers and wounded more than 700 in the country's deadliest attack since the Second World War.
Prime Minister Tony Blair, survivors and city workers bowed their heads for two minutes of national silence observed everywhere from the Wimbledon tennis tournament to the London Stock Exchange, punctuated by solemn bells at London's St. Paul's Cathedral.
Family members of the victims gathered later for a tearful private ceremony at Regent's Park. Two mothers, Marie Fatayi-Williams who lost her son and Kathryn Gilkinson who lost her daughter, read poems to honour their slain children. Saba Mozakka broke down in tears as she read a Persian poem to honour her mother who died in the bombings. Yvonne Nash gave a reading to honour her slain fiance.
Names of all of the victims were then read one-by-one, as members of the crowd wept and queued to place yellow flowers in a mosaic memorial.
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LONDON (AP) -- Silence fell across Britain on Friday as it marked the first anniversary of the July 7 London transit attacks, western Europe's first suicide bombings, which killed 52 people along with the attackers and wounded more than 700 in the country's deadliest attack since the Second World War.
Prime Minister Tony Blair, survivors and city workers bowed their heads for two minutes of national silence observed everywhere from the Wimbledon tennis tournament to the London Stock Exchange, punctuated by solemn bells at London's St. Paul's Cathedral.
Family members of the victims gathered later for a tearful private ceremony at Regent's Park. Two mothers, Marie Fatayi-Williams who lost her son and Kathryn Gilkinson who lost her daughter, read poems to honour their slain children. Saba Mozakka broke down in tears as she read a Persian poem to honour her mother who died in the bombings. Yvonne Nash gave a reading to honour her slain fiance.
Names of all of the victims were then read one-by-one, as members of the crowd wept and queued to place yellow flowers in a mosaic memorial.
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