Papers reflect on 'lucky escape'

"Is this how we must now live?" asks the Daily Mirror next to images of armed police and terrorised Londoners.

The Guardian reports on a manhunt for four would-be "suicide bombers" said to be on the run after the attacks.

"I stared into bomber's eyes," a London Underground passenger tells the Daily Mail.

The passenger, Abisha Moyo, describes seeing a young man lying arms outstretched and eyes closed on top of a rucksack near Shepherd's Bush station.

Many of the papers carry detailed witness accounts from the four blast scenes, with the Independent describing "screams of panic as passengers stampede to escape" one of the Tube blasts.

"We smelt burning wires," Sofiane Mohellabi, who was at the Warren Street incident, tells the paper. "People started running for their lives and screaming. I said my prayers and waited for it to happen."

The Sun, quoting police sources, says the attack was a "virtual carbon copy" of the 7 July bombings and reports that one of the devices was packed with nails.