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July 7, 2015, marks the 10th anniversary of a deadly terrorist attack on the London transit system. Suicide bombers targeted three subway trains and a double-decker bus during the morning rush hour. The bombings, which came to be known as the 7/7 attacks, killed 52 people and injured more than 700.

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