Survivors pictured next to the Number 30 bus which was bombed (Picture: PA, Getty, Rex, Jeremy Kyle, Sky News)

12 years ago today, four suicide bombers with explosives attacked central London, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700.

The devastating bombings were one of the worst attacks on British soil in recent history.

Today we recount the events that unfolded on the fateful day through the eyes of survivors.

The bombers’ journey began at 4am as three of the group – Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, and 18-year-old Hasib Hussain – left Leeds to meet their 19-year-old accomplice Germaine Lindsay in Luton.

They travelled to the capital by train and detonated four devices – three on the Underground and one on a double decker bus.

The devastating bombings killed 52 people and injured more than 700 (Picture: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images)

It was one of the worst attacks on British soil in recent history (Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

The bombers travelled to the capital by train and detonated four devices (Picture: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Three of the four bombs went off at 8.50am on Tube trains departing from King’s Cross.

Khan detonated his device on a westbound Circle Line train towards Paddington, and it exploded at Edgware Road.

The device killed six people, after it took emergency services 22 minutes to reach the scene.

Survivor Daniel Biddle still has a 20p piece lodged in his thigh bone and had other shrapnel, including his door keys, removed by surgeons.

Daniel Biddle survived the attack (Picture: YouTube – Jeremy Kyle)

Mohammad Sidique Khan detonated his device on a westbound Circle Line train towards Paddington (Picture: Getty Images)

He lost both legs, an eye and his spleen.

Mr Biddle, 31, recalled the explosion: ‘He didn’t say anything, he didn’t shout anything that I can remember hearing.

‘He just looked down the carriage, made his arm movement, and the next thing I’m off the train.’

Tanweer detonated his device on an eastbound Circle Line train between Liverpool Street and Aldgate.

Shehzad Tanweer detonated his device on an eastbound Circle Line train, killing seven people (Picture: Handout)

A wounded woman is escorted away from the chaos in Aldgate (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

The explosion in the second carriage killed seven people.

Survivor Philip Duckworth was blinded in one eye by a fragment of the bomber’s shin bone.

When rescuers walked down the tunnel to search for survivors, one looked at him and said: ‘This one’s gone.’

The banker, 41, said he was ‘outraged’ and summoned all his energy to stand up and stagger towards a group of firemen.

The most deadly attack occurred on the Piccadilly Line between King’s Cross and Russell Square, where Lindsay killed 26 people.

Philip Duckworth was blinded in one eye (Picture: Sky News)

Germaine Lindsay detonated the most lethal bomb, killing 26 (Picture: Handout)

Paul Glennerster, whose leg was blown off, was convinced nobody would come to rescue him.

He said: ‘I decided to get out. I picked the leg up and hopped.’

Gill Hicks, 42, squeezed into the same carriage as Lindsay after failing to get on the previous train.

Gill Hicks almost lost both legs (Picture: Rex)

The attack occurred on the Piccadilly Line between King’s Cross and Russell Square (Picture: CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)

She could hear other people screaming and ‘realised we were all in this together and that was strangely comforting.’

‘I could see the extent of my injuries from the light coming through and I knew I was losing a lot of blood.

‘I was able to see I had almost lost both legs. They were hanging on by sinew and skin… it was very odd.’

Hasib Hussain detonated his bomb on a double-decker bus and killed 13 people (Picture: Metropolitan Police via Getty Images)

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Hussain, the youngest of the bombers, detonated his bomb on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square and killed 13 people.

The bombing took place around an hour after the other explosions.

Mobile phone records showed he had tried in vain to contact his friends.

The number 30 bus was torn apart in front of the British Medical Association HQ, where a conference was being held.

A cyclist observes floral tributes laid near the Tavistock explosion (Picture: Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)

George Psaradakis, the driver of the number 30 bus that was bombed (Picture: Getty)

Dozens of doctors offered lifesaving help.

The bus’ driver, George Psaradakis, 59, told the Daily Mail: ‘The horror of what I witnessed is etched indelibly on my heart, but I saw so many wonderful things too.

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‘Sheer altruism, benevolence, people going out of their way to help others.

‘What I saw was the worst of people mixed with the best.’