Video seems to show would-be bomber targeting mother, child
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 | 11:33 AM ET
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A London jury saw a surveillance video on Tuesday that appeared to show an alleged subway bomber turning so that a bomb in his backpack was facing a mother and child, then trying to explode it, the BBC reported.
The six defendants in the case deny charges of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions in what is alleged to have been a near tragedy on the London transit system on July 21, 2005.
Police and other emergency services personnel outside the Oval tube station, July 21, 2005, in London, England.
(Sergio Dionisio/ Associated Press) Two weeks earlier, bombings by another group killed 56 people, including the four bombers.
Prosecutors say similar carnage was avoided on July 21 only because the group on trial made a mistake in preparing ingredients for the four bombs they are alleged to have made. The detonators exploded, but the main charges did not.
The video, taken on a train near Oval station in south London, was played on the second day of the trial.
It was said to show one of the defendants, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, boarding the train and allegedly attempting to blow himself and his fellow passengers up.
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It showed all the passengers in the car scrambling to get away except a fireman named Angus Campbell, who remonstrated with the man, the BBC said.
The alleged bomber was later seen running up an escalator, chased by several members of the public, after the train reached the Oval Station. |
