US Nurse Battled To Help Tube Bomb Victims

An American nurse battled her way off a Tube train and into a bombed carriage to help July 7 terror attack victims, a coroner has heard.

They were speaking at the inquests of 52 people who were killed during the 2005 atrocities in London.
               The nurse told how she forced her way out of the train she was on, which had been travelling in the opposite direction to one blown up by Mohammed Sidique Khan at Edgware Road. She sobbed: "Everyone was going to the floor to try to get air because the train had filled with smoke. “When she heard the screaming she said we had to get those people out. We tried to wedge the doors open but they wouldn't open more than an inch or two. “She tried to break the glass with an axe but it wouldn't break so we were helpless, there was nothing we could do. “The nurse, who was living in London at the time, eventually managed to get into the bombed train through the first carriage of her own Tube, where a window had been broken.

Among the many casualties, she found 29-year-old Laura Webb, a personal assistant who was killed in the blast. The nurse moved on to give first aid to others in the carriage, One woman had a laceration to her leg. Ms Levine said: "I think I found a sweatshirt somewhere and I tied that around her leg to stop the bleeding."

Neil Saunders, a lawyer for Ms Webb's relatives, said: "Laura's family would like me to extend their thanks to you for your efforts that day and the checking that you did."
The inquest, at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, is still continuing.