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7/7: The London Bombings

7/7: The London Bombings

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7/7: The London Bombings

2025- 2025

1 Seasons

4 Episodes

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Overview

Documentary looking at the 2005 attack on London's transport system and the ensuing police investigation and the three-week hunt to catch the bombers.

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Jean Charles de Menezes

Self (archive footage)

Tony Blair

Tony Blair

Self

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