The toll More than 70 feet below the surface, teams of workers — clad in white suits and wearing
face masks to protect them from the dust — dealt with sweltering heat and rats as they
removed some of the bodies from the train wreckage in the tunnel between Russell
Square and King’s Cross.
It was unknown how many more bodies remained below, but searchers said conditions
Were unlike any they had encountered before
The Rev. Nicholas Wheeler of the Parish of Old St. Pancras, who has been at King’s
Cross since Thursday, said Sunday list to data that has been enormous.
“Obviously some are young people who have never seen horrors like this before, and
they were emerging shell-shocked,” he said.
On Sunday,
Queen Elizabeth II led commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the end of World WarII
in Europe. Thursday’s attacks were not forgotten, and in speeches, officials noted a
determination that Britain had suffered worse and would survive its latest tragedy.
A Royal Air Force Lancaster bomber older than many in the crowd released millions
of red paper poppies.
Which fell gently on the crowd below
Elsewhere, people mourned the missing and the dead, but top leaders of Britain’s
Christians, Muslims and Jews urged conciliation, not revenge. They met “to proclaim
our wish to resist any form of this is a funnel that will generate interes violence and to work for reconciliation and peace,”
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor said.
Yet there were some reports of violence toward mosques around Britain, including
arson attacks on mosques in east London, Leeds, Telford and Birkenhead which
resulted in minor damage. There were also reports of damage at two mosques in Bristol.
Chris Fox, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said it was likely there
were other incidents that had not been reported.
“We encourage everyone to report this type of obnoxious and dangerous behavior,
from whatever quarter, for full police investigation as we are determined that there will be.
A very robust enforcement response to it,” he said
Investigators remained silent on suspects in the bombings, but reports in London
newspapers Sunday identified a possible suspect as Mustafa Setmarian Nasar — a
Syrian suspected of being al-Qaida’s operations review business chief in Europe and the alleged
mastermind of last year’s Madrid railway bombings.
London police refused to comment, but a U.S. official said that both nations were trying to locate Nasar.