Residents in a block of flats targeted by police searching for the would-be London suicide bombers saw the suspected terror suspects filling a lift with mysterious small brown cardboard boxes.

The hunt for the would-be suicide bombers who tried to strike London intensified today after police named two of the suspected attackers.

SCOTLAND Yard yesterday named two of the men who, they believe, attempted to blow themselves up on the London transport network last week.

THE driver of the London bus targeted in the latest attacks on the capital yesterday issued a defiant message to the bombers and vowed to return to work.

POLICE have released images of the four suspected suicide bombers who tried to bring more death and carnage to London on Thursday.

Police have revealed the faces of four men wanted for questioning in connection with the attempted suicide attacks in London yesterday.

The number 26 bus targeted by a bomber was today moved from the spot where it was abandoned.

AT 1.30pm the driver of the number 26 bus reported hearing a bang followed by a smell of cordite and smoke coming from the upper deck while driving along Hackney Road near Shoreditch in east London.

A police source said there was still a rucksack on the top deck of a bus which was being examined by specialist officers in London today.

Emergency services personnel have responded to reports of an incident on a bus in Hackney Road, junction near Colombia Road, east London, Scotland Yard said today.