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| 7/7 inquest: Survivor found friend's body after blast | 7/7 inquest: Survivor found friend's body after blast |
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| A survivor of the 7 July bus bombing broke down as she told the inquests how she found the body of a friend who died in the attack. | A survivor of the 7 July bus bombing broke down as she told the inquests how she found the body of a friend who died in the attack. |
| Camille Scott-Bradshaw, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was blown out of the bus and on to the road by the force of the blast. | Camille Scott-Bradshaw, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was blown out of the bus and on to the road by the force of the blast. |
| Afterwards, she said she recognised the body of colleague Marie Hartley from her hair and a bracelet on her wrist. | Afterwards, she said she recognised the body of colleague Marie Hartley from her hair and a bracelet on her wrist. |
| A total of 52 people died in four suicide attacks in London in 2005. | A total of 52 people died in four suicide attacks in London in 2005. |
| Ms Scott-Bradshaw and Ms Hartley had travelled to the capital for a conference when they were caught up in the bombing of the number 30 bus in Tavistock Square. | Ms Scott-Bradshaw and Ms Hartley had travelled to the capital for a conference when they were caught up in the bombing of the number 30 bus in Tavistock Square. |
| 'Floating' | 'Floating' |
| Giving evidence by video link, she told the inquest she had felt "uneasy" when a fellow passenger mentioned there had been an explosion on the Underground, but "didn't for one minute think that it would affect me". | Giving evidence by video link, she told the inquest she had felt "uneasy" when a fellow passenger mentioned there had been an explosion on the Underground, but "didn't for one minute think that it would affect me". |
| Nevertheless, she decided to send a text message to her partner and colleagues to tell them she was safe. | Nevertheless, she decided to send a text message to her partner and colleagues to tell them she was safe. |
| Moments later, 18-year-old suicide bomber Hasib Hussain detonated his device. | Moments later, 18-year-old suicide bomber Hasib Hussain detonated his device. |
| "I kept thinking, it's a bomb, a bomb, a bomb has gone off, but I couldn't see anything," she said. | "I kept thinking, it's a bomb, a bomb, a bomb has gone off, but I couldn't see anything," she said. |
| "My eyes were just black and I just felt like I was floating through the air." | "My eyes were just black and I just felt like I was floating through the air." |
| Ms Scott-Bradshaw said she began searching for Ms Hartley, 34, in the courtyard of the nearby British Medical Association building. | Ms Scott-Bradshaw said she began searching for Ms Hartley, 34, in the courtyard of the nearby British Medical Association building. |
| "I asked people if they knew where Marie was... I just remember looking over and I think, in the corner, there were bodies... and I could see Marie. I just knew it was Marie. | "I asked people if they knew where Marie was... I just remember looking over and I think, in the corner, there were bodies... and I could see Marie. I just knew it was Marie. |
| "Then someone came along and put a sheet over her. I knew it was Marie because I could see her hair, her bracelet and her arms." | "Then someone came along and put a sheet over her. I knew it was Marie because I could see her hair, her bracelet and her arms." |
| Ms Scott-Bradshaw suffered severe leg injuries and damage to her hearing, but told the inquest she was "very, very lucky" to escape the bombing with her life. | Ms Scott-Bradshaw suffered severe leg injuries and damage to her hearing, but told the inquest she was "very, very lucky" to escape the bombing with her life. |
| Another passenger who survived the blast told of his ordeal of losing his right leg. | |
| Mark Beck, of east London, was about to get off the bus when the bomb detonated, leaving him "bent double" under a pile of rubble. | |
| He told the inquest he was unable to cry for help because his "sternum had been pushed inside his chest". | |
| "You just presume that someone will know you are there and after a while nobody was coming so I started to panic a bit and then dug around for my foot so that I could release myself," he said. | |
| Taxi driver Scott Kelman, who witnessed the carnage as he drove across Tavistock Square, also gave evidence on Monday. | |
| He said shards of glass and metal flew through a narrow gap in his car window and hit him on the head, just as a body hit the side of his cab on the passenger door. | |
| He described seeing "dead bodies everywhere" and finding survivor Emma Plunkett lying under the wheels of the bus unable to move her legs and struggling to breath. | |
| "I told her to just breathe slowly and to keep calm," he said. | |
| Another witness, Anthony Stavely, was also driving through Tavistock Square at the time of the blast. | |
| Speaking outside the court, he explained what he had witnessed: "A black flash, smoke going up in the air... then debris coming down and quietness afterwards. | |
| "I got out of the car and everything was very quiet, and there were some bodies lying in the street in front of me." | "I got out of the car and everything was very quiet, and there were some bodies lying in the street in front of me." |
| The driver with the government car service, attached to the Department of Health, had told the inquest he was upset by people who had stopped to take photographs. | |
| The inquests continue. | The inquests continue. |