Long identification process for London bomb victims

Police and forensic officers search a house on Colywn road, in the Beeston area of Leeds which was raided last morning in connection with last week's bombings in London. Police raided five locations in northern England early yesterday in an operation "directly connected" with last week's bombings in London, but said no arrests had yet been made. PHOTO: AFP

Although dozens are missing and presumed by their loved ones to have perished in one of the four explosions last Thursday morning, thus far only two of the dead have been formally identified.

London's Metropolitan Police has set up a massive temporary mortuary on a military barracks just east of the city centre where relatives are being taken to identify victims, more of whom were likely to be named imminently.

Police were also continuing a painstaking search for evidence at the sites of the bombs, three on subway trains and one on a packed bus, which killed a total of at least 52 people, Britain's worst post-World War II attack.