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Cops release bomber picture
02/10/2005 08:44 - (SA)
London - British police on Sunday released a new picture of one of the four London bombers as he strolled out of a health and beauty store less than an hour before blowing himself and 13 other people up on a bus.
Hasib Hussain, 18, the youngest member of the gang, was caught on closed circuit television (CCTV) footage walking casually out of the Boots store at Kings Cross station, north London, on July 7 with a large rucksack packed with explosives on his back.
The image was taken at 09:00, just 13 minutes after his accomplices detonated bombs in their rucksacks on three subway trains.
Detectives know the four travelled to Kings Cross together on a train from Luton, just north of the British capital, before going their separate ways.
They have also discovered that Hussain, who was wearing jeans, a pale blue T-shirt and a light jacket, then tried in vain to contact the others on their mobile phones.
Police believe that after failing to make contact, he walked the short distance to Euston station before catching the number 30 bus.
At 09:47 the young man detonated his rucksack as the double-decker bus drove through Tavistock Square in central London.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman said: "We would ask the public to think if this photograph triggers anything they may remember. Were they in that area? Do they recognise themselves by clothing in that picture?
"We are always looking for evidential opportunities. We cannot discount anything."
He urged anyone with information to call a special anti-terrorist hotline.
In August, British newspapers reported that Hussain ate a snack at a McDonald's restaurant and left frantic phone messages for his accomplices during the "missing hour" between the synchronised July 7 suicide attacks on three subway trains and his solo strike on a bus.
Fifty two people were killed in the bombings along with the four presumed suicide bombers.
- AFP
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