Posted on 10/13/2010 8:05:04 AM PDT by nuconvert
Tube travellers displayed "remarkable heroism" in risking their lives to help injured and dying victims of the 7/7 attacks, an inquest has heard. An off-duty doctor ignored orders to leave the Aldgate train so she could continue giving life-saving assistance, while passengers on a second service clambered into the carriage blown up at Edgware Road to aid the wounded.
Dramatic video footage showing the wreckage of the three Tube trains and the bus targeted by suicide bombers in London on 7 July, 2005, was played to the hearing yesterday.
The never-before-seen film, captured by police after the dead and injured were taken away, shows the horrific scenes that met survivors and rescuers.
Hugo Keith QC, counsel to the inquests, said the emergency services were confronted by a "horrifying scene of mangled flesh, torn bodies, debris and metal".
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