Tube bomb ‘blew me out of train’

Daniel Biddle suffered extensive injuries after the bomb in his Tube carriage was detonated

A survivor of the 7 July blast at Edgware Road Tube station has told an inquest how he was standing next to the bomb when it detonated.

Mohammad Sidique Khan killed himself and six other people when he detonated his device.

Daniel Biddle, 31, who was next to the bomber, lost both legs, his left eye, his spleen and pints of blood.

He told the inquest into the 2005 attacks he was “terrified… and thought I was going to die”.

He also said a 20p piece remained lodged in his thigh bone, and that other shrapnel, including his door keys, was removed by surgeons.

Attending the Royal Courts of Justice for the inquest, Mr Biddle, a construction manager, said he had been blown out of the westbound Circle Line train as he travelled to work.

He described how Khan, who got on the train at King’s Cross, sat between 6ft and 10ft away from him before detonating his bomb by pulling a white cord.

Mr Biddle said: “The train entered the Tube tunnel, I looked around.

“As I looked around, he looked up and I saw a quick movement. Then there was a big white flash.

“The kind of noise you get when you tune a radio in. It felt like the carriage I was in expanded at a fast rate and then contracted quickly.

“And with that it blew me off my feet and through the carriage doors into the tunnel.”

He also said that Khan “looked up and along the carriage and just looked down” before he set the device off.

“He didn’t say anything or shout anything I remember hearing. He got his head down, moved his arm and the next thing I am outside the train.”

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