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In total 25 tons of bombs fell on Leeds during the raid, a quarter of the 100 tons often used as the threshold for a "major raid". [ 11 ] [ 17 ] By comparison, that night in Glasgow 203 aircraft dropped 231 tons of high explosives, nearly ten times the amount dropped on Leeds, and 1,650 incendiary canisters, while in nearby Sheffield 117 ...
Khan detonated his bomb on the number 216 train, killing seven people, including himself. Shehzad Tanweer, aged 22. Also lived in Beeston, Leeds, occasionally working in his mother and father's fish and chip shop on Lodge Lane, Beeston. He detonated his bomb on the number 204 train. Eight people, including Tanweer, were killed by the explosion.
06:30: Having identified three suspects from CCTV footage, a missing person's report and documents found in the debris at each bomb site, armed police and army bomb disposal experts conduct three raids in the Beeston and Holbeck areas of Leeds and two in nearby Dewsbury, in West Yorkshire. The Metropolitan Police lead this operation, working in ...
Looking towards Leeds city centre from Beeston Hill. Beeston is an inner-city area located close to Leeds city centre. It is severed from the areas to the north by the M621 motorway, separated from Middleton by Middleton Park and from Cottingley by the Leeds Outer Ring Road. Beeston can be described as three distinct areas.
The attack happened in Tempest Road, Beeston, on Tuesday [Google Maps] Detectives have launched an attempted murder investigation after a man suffered serious head injuries in an attack in Leeds.
The statue of Billy Bremner, who played for Leeds United between 1959 and 1976 and captained them to cup success in 1968 and 1972. Leeds United Football Club were founded in October 1919, taking the place in the Midland League vacated by Leeds City Reserves, and were elected to The Football League for the 1920–21 season. They won the Second Division title four years later to gain promotion ...
After authorities reopened parts of Altadena for the first time since the Eaton fire, residents returned to a grim checkerboard of destroyed homes next to others that were largely spared.
Shehzad Tanweer (15 December 1982 – 7 July 2005) [1] was a British Pakistani who was one of four Islamist terrorists who detonated explosives in three trains on the London Underground and one bus in central London during the 7 July 2005 London bombings. 52 people were killed, plus the 4 bombers themselves, and over 700 wounded in the attacks.