7/7 London bombings police officer reveals the tragic words he said when he was left alone with the bodies of victims in blown-up Tube carriage
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A retired Counter Terrorism Officer has revealed how he spoke to the bodies of victims of the London 7/7 terrorist attacks, after being left 'completely alone' with them in a Tube carriage hours after a teen suicide bomber had detonated his rucksack bomb.
![[A carriage of Piccadilly Line train 311, footage of which appears in new BBC documentary, 7/7 The London Bombings; the 20th anniversary series sees first responders sharing emotional accounts of how the atrocities unfolded]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/08/09/93832377-14259045-image-a-7_1736329121986.jpg)
Clive Holland was among a police team who headed down to assess the devastation caused when the first carriage of Piccadilly Line train 311 was blown up by suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay close to Russell Square station. Lindsay's detonation at 8.49am on July 7, 2005, was one of three bombs that killed 42 people on the London Underground, with 14 more lives lost on the number 30 bus in Tavistock Square less than an hour later. 784 people were also injured in the atrocities.
![[Inside the carriage blown apart by the suicide bomb: Police detective Clive Holland said he told those who'd been killed: 'Everything is going to be OK']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/08/09/93832385-14259045-image-a-4_1736329101559.jpg)
All four of the bombers, who'd plotted their attack from their homes in West Yorkshire, Hasib Hussain, Shehzad Tanweer, Germaine Lindsay and Mohammad Sidique Khan, were killed. It was the deadliest attack in London since World War II, the worst terrorist attack since the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and involved the first suicide bombings ever on English soil.
![[Holland described the moment he told those lost he would 'get you back to your loved ones as quickly as we can']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/08/09/93832381-14259045-image-m-6_1736329109216.jpg)
A new BBC series, 7/7 The London Bombings, marks the 20th year since the attacks, with many of the first responders who attended the scenes of slaughter recounting through tears how the day unfolded. Viewers have called the series, of which two episodes have aired on BBC Two so far, 'gripping' and 'heartbreaking'.
![[The 7/7 bombers, Hasib Hussain, Shehzad Tanweer, Jermaine Lindsay and Mohammad Sidique Khan]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/07/13/93613127-0-The_7_7_bombers_Hasib_Hussain_Shehzad_Tanweer_Jermaine_Lindsay_a-a-5_1736255218892.jpg)
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