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.

* 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.