EXACTLY 30 minutes after the first bomb blast at Edgware Road, a bomb tore the roof off a red number 30 double decker bus packed with commuters forced above ground after the Tube network had been shut down.

MINUTES after the first blast ripped through Liverpool Street station, the emergency plan swung into operation. Hospitals were soon inundated with the hundreds of injured.

Doctors at the British Medical Association helped treat casualties after today’s bus explosion outside their headquarters.