‘The flame of her life has been cruelly extinguished’

THE first funeral for the victims of last week’s London bombings took place yesterday afternoon. Shahara Islam, 20, from Plaistow, east London, was buried at a private service.

A statement from her family paid tribute to a simple girl who had been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It read: "Today our dear daughter, cause of our joy and light of our eyes our Shahara is returning to her Lord an innocent and blood-stained martyr. She was an Eastender, a Londoner and British, but above all, a true Muslim and proud to be so.