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 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject: Victim in London Bombing Survived Taliban |
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13390708,00.html
| Quote: | VICTIM SURVIVED TALIBAN
A 24-year-old man whose parents were killed by the Taliban has become the last of the 52 London bombing victims to be formally identified.
Ateeque Sharifi, an Afghan national, had arrived in Britain seeking a safe life but was among 26 people to die in a blast on the Underground between King's Cross and Russell Square.
A total of 56 people are known to have been killed by the July 7 attacks, including the four suicide bombers.
Mr Sharifi had left Kabul at the age of 21 and, after struggling to learn English, became a popular student at West Thames College.
Mr Sharifi, from Hounslow, west London, was the only male member of his family to escape death in his native country.
While in the UK, he had worked in a pizza takeway between studies and sent most of his money back to his younger sister in Afghanistan.
West Thames College principal Thalia Mariott said: "The deep irony of this tragic event is that Ateeque had left Afghanistan to seek safety in the UK, only to find his fate at the hands of extremists here."
The President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, laid flowers to the victims outside King's Cross station. He said: "The Afghan people share the pain of the families very, very much."
Meanwhile, the family of Philip Duckworth, who had been missing since the attacks, say he has been found in a stable condition in hospital. |
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