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A Multinational List Of Missing in London
Photos of some of those missing in Thursday's bombings of three London Underground trains are posted at the King's Cross station.
(By Francois Lenoir -- Reuters)
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Her subway ride would have taken about an hour.
Authorities now believe that the bombs were placed on the trains at King's Cross. For any of the victims looking out the train windows while waiting to pull out of the station, one of their last sights would have been the words, "Absolute Terror. Bold and Brilliant," on posters advertising a movie.
At about 8:50 a.m., Rashid Rashid, 25, heard a boom that woke him. He understood, but went back to sleep. "I'm from Iraq," Rashid said later that day. ''I hear explosions every day."
Tantalizingly, Hasan said, his cell phone logged a missed call from Islam's phone an hour after the blast. He might never know whether it was a technical aberration or his niece, somehow still alive.
"I think it's gotten to a point we've lost most hope," he said Sunday.
On Monday, Islam's former school soberly noted her disappearance. A school official said the head teacher met with some of the uniformed pupils. But no black ribbons, no photographs marked the bank where the missing woman worked. The family has not yet planned a vigil or memorial, Hasan said.
Outside King's Cross station, posters seeking news of the missing gave way to cards and bouquets mourning them. Men and women walked through flowers heaped knee-high to place their own bouquets.
"To all those left behind on the Piccadilly line train. Sorry we could not do more," said a card signed by three men.
"To all the innocent, decent and ordinary victims of this wicked, pointless act, rest peacefully in heaven. We will always remember you," wrote a man who signed, "Tony -- life-long Londoner."
Someone had hung a Palestinian flag above the flowers. Someone else had hung an Israeli flag nearby. A smaller banner, misspelled and almost lost in the flowers, declared:
"We Bangladeshis condemn terror and missuse in the name of Islam."
Staff writer Robin Wright in Washington and special correspondent Audrey Gillen in London contributed to this report.
