July 7 Attacks
London's emergency services faulted
London's emergency services responded poorly to the July 7 suicide bombings by relying on outdated communications, lacking medical supplies and failing to track thousands of survivors, an official report said yesterday.
The London Assembly's July 7 review committee said that the most striking failure was the lack of planning to care for thousands of people who survived or were traumatised by the bombings on three underground trains and a bus.
The report revealed that as many as 6,000 people were likely to have been severely psychologically affected by the explosions but that the majority were still not known to the authorities or part of any support network.
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