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Station reopens after bombing
25/07/2005 10:15 - (SA)
London - One of three London Underground stations hit by the deadly July 7 suicide bombings was reopened on Monday, but commuters in the British capital still faced wide-scale disruptions to subway service.
Aldgate station had been shut since Shahzad Tanweer, a Briton of Pakistani origin, apparently blew himself up on a Circle Line train as it approached the station from Liverpool Street, killing himself and seven rush-hour commuters.
Engineers have now repaired the damage and the station reopened for the start of Monday service.
The Metropolitan Line, which had been closed from Moorgate to Aldgate, also resumed a full service on Monday.
Suspended
Elsewhere, there is still large-scale disruption to the Underground network in the wake of the bombings. All services on the Circle Line remain suspended.
The Piccadilly Line is suspended between Hyde Park Corner and Arnos Grove and between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge, while the District Line is suspended between Edgware Road and High Street Kensington stations.
Trains are running again on the Hammersmith and City Line between Hammersmith and Paddington, but not between Paddington and Barking.
Extra bus services are being run to replace the suspended train services.
Normal service
The Northern, Victoria, Central, Bakerloo, Waterloo and City, East London and Jubilee Lines are running a normal service.
Fifty-two people, plus the four bombers, were killed and 700 injured on July 7 when bombers detonated explosives on three Underground trains and a bus in central London.
Another set of bombers tried to stage a similar near-simultaneous attack last Thursday, but their explosives did not detonate properly. Police were still hunting for the suspects.
- AFP
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