July 21 Suspects Used Flour-Based Bombs, Court Told (Update2)
By Megan Murphy and James Lumley
Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- A group of would-be suicide bombers made flour and hydrogen peroxide-based explosives wrapped in shrapnel in an attempt to carry out a deadly terror strike on London's transport system on July 21, 2005, a prosecutor said.
Londoners were still reeling from the July 7 attacks, where 56 people lost their lives in a series of bombings carried out by Islamic extremists, when the six Muslim men carried out their botched attempt, prosecutor Nigel Sweeney QC told a jury today at the start of their trial.
One of the men, Ramzi Mohammed, even turned his homemade device to face a mother and child as he tried to detonate it, Sweeney said. The bombs didn't cause widespread death and destruction because they didn't contain a high enough concentration of peroxide to explode properly, Sweeney said.
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