London looks back at 7/7 terror

London: It’s been one year since the 7/7 terror blasts in England’s capital and for the Londoners, it’s a day of remembrance.

A two-minute silence at noon, memorial plaques at all the blast sites and a public ceremony in the evening will mark the first anniversary of the London attacks.

However, as the city looks back on the day when four near-simultaneous blasts ripped through its busy railway stations, killing 50 and injuring over 700 in 20 minutes, the question is whether London is any safer than it was last year?

How vulnerable is the city to more such terror schemes?

While the city seems to have moved on from the 7/7 nightmare, concerns remain.

"Cities have to move on and I think London has done that too. It hasn't stopped. I feel safe but I know a lot of people who still fear getting into tubes and stuff," says a London resident.

"I don't fear the recurrence of the attacks. What I fear is crime which I have already confronted," says a Bangladeshi girl in London.

London police investigations have been on at a mammoth scale since last year. Over 12,000 statements and 6,000 hours of closed-circuit TV recordings later, the officials claim at least three more terror plots have been disrupted in the past 12 months.

While, a government report in May this year denies that there was any intelligence lapse, it still admits that poor communication and lack of resources hampered the rescue operations after the attack.

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