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Radio Five Live reporter Farrington recalls being on the streets as the bombs went off: "A church had become a sanctuary for the walking wounded and ambulances were taking other passengers away on stretchers. Witnesses with blackened faces spoke of seeing a flash and hearing a bang. The next thing they saw, they said, were bodies on the floor of an adjacent carriage. An enduring image was of a man sitting on a kerb. He looked liked a City trader. His suit jacket and the briefcase propped by his side were pristine, but his trousers were hanging in rags round his ankles and he was wearing only one shoe. His expression was blank."
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