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Families remember July 7 victims on fourth anniversary of bombings

Saba Mozakka, 28, said she still feels a sense of loss and described the new memorial as a reminder of "52 very much loved and missed people".

Her mother Behnaz Mozakka, a 47-year-old, biomedical officer, was commuting to work at London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital on the morning of July 7, when she was killed while travelling on a Piccadilly line tube.

A bomb carried by Germaine Lindsay detonated as her train travelled from King's Cross to Russell Square station, killing 26.

Four years later a monument has been created on the edge of one of London's premier parks to commemorate those who died in the terrorist bombings.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)