Revealed: Gang that died bombing London |
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Four bombers caught on camera – with explosives Kate O'Hara, William Green, Rob Waugh, Chris Benfield, Andrew Robinson and David Hogg THREE young men from West Yorkshire were revealed last night as the London bombers who murdered more than 50 people with blasts on Underground trains and a bus that brought Al-Qaida terror to Britain. Hasib Hussain, 18, Shahzad Tanweer, 22, and a third, unidentified man, aged 30, all from Leeds and Dewsbury, were caught on closed circuit TV at King's Cross Station in London, carrying identical haversacks packed with explosives moments before the blasts last week. Hussain died when his bomb blew up a bus in Tavistock Square. Tanweer and the third man almost certainly died when their bombs went off on the Underground. They were revealed as apparently the first suicide bombers in Britain after a day of anti-terror raids in West Yorkshire, which saw explosives recovered from a house in Leeds, a man arrested in Dewsbury and six properties cordoned off. Meanwhile, at Luton rail station in Bedfordshire, explosives were found in what is believed to be a car hired from a Leeds company by Tanweer. A series of controlled explosions was carried out by the Army. Later, a second car believed to be connected to the bombings was also recovered in the Luton area. The head of the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terror Squad, Peter Clark, said the three men had arrived at King's Cross by train 20 minutes before the first of the explosions that paralysed London and sent shockwaves around the world. He said: "The investigation quite early led us to have concerns about the movement and activities of four men, three of whom came from the West Yorkshire area. "We are trying to establish their movements in the run-up to last week's attacks and specifically to establish if they all died in the explosions." The three and a fourth man who has not been identified, were caught on camera carrying the haversacks before three of them boarded Underground trains and Hussain climbed aboard the number 30 bus near King's Cross. A senior security source said the camera images were only spotted at 8pm on Monday and added: "They were chatting. You would think they were going on a hiking holiday." Documents containing the names of the bombers were found at two of the three Underground bomb scenes, while a driving licence and cash cards linked Hussein to the bus explosion. Ironically, police were put on the trail of the bombers when a relative of one of them reported him missing. There was shock and disbelief in the Beeston area of Leeds and the Thornhill area of Dewsbury last night after dawn raids by West Yorkshire Police, led by officers from the Metropolitan Police in London. They swooped on five addresses and later in the morning, the Army carried out a controlled explosion to blow a way into a house in the Burley area of Leeds, where police found a "significant amount" of explosives. As that was happening, a representative of a Leeds car hire firm arrived at Tanweer's home in Colwyn Road inquiring about an unreturned Nissan Micra. |
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