Terror blast victim backs hospital fundraising appeal

A WOMAN who suffered serious facial burns in the London terrorist attacks on July 7, 2005, backed the launch of a £50,000 (about €60,000) hospital fundraising appeal to help fellow burns victims.

The image of Davinia Turrell clutching a surgical burns mask over her injured face in the wake of the Edgware Road station blast came to symbolise the horror of the London bombings, which claimed the lives of 52 victims.

She survived the fallout from the detonated bomb, but the “ball of fire” created in the carriage scorched the skin from the left side of her face.