Second 7/7 anniversary marked with flowers

LONDON (Reuters) - The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, will attend a flower-laying ceremony at Kings Cross station on Saturday morning to mark the second anniversary of the July 7 London suicide bombings.

The Mayor, along with Tessa Jowell, the Minister for the Olympics and London, and Peter Hendy, Commissioner of Transport for London, will lay wreaths at the station at 8:50 a.m., the time of the first explosion in 2005.

The low-key event is at the request of relatives of those who were killed or seriously injured in the explosions on three London Underground trains and a double-decker bus.

The bombings killed 52 people as well as the four Islamists who carried them out and a further 700 people were injured.

It was the highest toll from a bombing in the UK since the death of 270 people in the 1988 Pan Am Lockerbie disaster.

In February, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced that a permanent memorial to the 52 dead would be installed in Hyde Park.

Early plans had been for a memorial in Tavistock Square, where the attack on the double-decker bus took place, but families of the victims felt Hyde Park would be a more prominent location in the capital for a memorial.