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Evening Standard
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Megan Howe

7/7 bombing survivor reveals he 'can't forgive' terrorist who cost him both legs and an eye in horror attack

A survivor of the 7/7 London bombings has recounted the final moments of the killer — and explained why he can never forgive him.

Dan Biddle was given just a 2 per cent chance of survival after losing both legs, his left eye and spleen when Mohammad Sidique Khan detonated a bomb on the Edgware Road underground train.

The then 26-year-old was on his way to work at a construction site that day when he stood next to Khan who was sitting down with a rucksack on his lap.

Mr Biddle recalled a white flash before he collided with the tunnel wall and landed in the space between the wall and the tracks.

Speaking to Good Morning Britain, Mr Biddle said: "There's nothing but hatred and contempt. There can't be forgiveness for such an act of evil. I really, truly don't believe that.

“I think forgiveness is something that you earn. Forgiveness is something that you would be genuinely sorry for what's happened.

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"I believe if he hadn't have killed himself, he'd have gone on to do it again. And I looked at that man in the face before he detonated that bomb and there was no hesitation.

"There was no, oh my God, am I doing the right thing? It was just, he looked at me and everybody else on that train with a vitriolic hatred and wanted to kill us all. I can't forgive that!"

The terrorist suicide bombings of July 7, 2005, killed 52 people and injured over 770 others when four jihadists blew up three tube trains and a bus.

It was the UK’s deadliest act since the Pan-Am flight in 1988 in Lockerbie, followed 12 years later by the attack on Ariana Grande’s concert in Manchester, which killed 22 people.

Mr Biddle was found by a former Army medic who risked his life to crawl across the tracks to help him.

He pinched Mr Biddle’s femoral artery shut, just a minute before he would have bled out.

In the hospital, Mr Biddle’s heart stopped three times - the last time, the surgeon took nearly 15 minutes to get it going again by hand. Dan woke up eight weeks later.

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