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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/9-11-anniversary-...-073900221.html KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12

Five years on, victims of 7 July bombings are remembered People gather at memorial to 52 victims of London underground and bus bombings to pay their respects guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 July 2010 12.16 BST Article history The Hyde Park memorial to the victims of the 7 July London bombings. Photograph: Stephen Hird/AP At 8.50am on the 7 July 2005, three bombs exploded on underground trains in central London. The explosions were followed, within an hour, by another on a London bus. At 8.50am today, under a grey sky, a handful of people gathered quietly at the eastern side of Hyde Park, where 52 steel pillars represent those killed in the bombings. They came to pay their respects, to remember loved ones, to be quiet for a few moments as the traffic rumbled past in the background. A young couple held each other, looking at the memorial as a few spots of rain began to fall. Another man walked silently in the memorial, weaving his way between the pillars. Smartly dressed in a suit and tie, 32-year-old Andrew Robinson, an analyst in the City, said he had been on the tube between Liverpool Street and Aldgate stations when the bomb detonated by Shehzad Tanweer killed seven people and injured 171. When the train was evacuated, he said, passengers were forced to walk past scenes of devastation. "I was in physical danger, and I think if I had not seen those things I would have had a very different memory of the day," he added. He spent a few moments today remembering that day, and said the simplicity of the memorial was a fitting tribute to the victims of the attack. "It's fantastic, I find it very moving," he said. Hazel Webb, whose daughter, Laura, died in the Edgware Road bombing, was also there. While some survivors and the families of victims have expressed disappointment that no official ceremony was been staged to mark the fifth anniversary of the bombings, Webb said: "Last year's ceremony was fantastic