A grim list of death

THE rising death toll could yet see the July 7 bombings join the grim list of largest losses of British lives since the Second World War.

A grim list of death
Fri, 08 Jul, 2005 - 01:00

* In 1953, 307 people died when floods tore across the east coast of Britain.

* Water was a killer again in 1987 when 193 Britons perished in the Zeebrugge ferry disaster after the Herald of Free Enterprise sank.

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