Shehzad Tanweer
Shehzad Tanweer (born December 15, 1982 in Bradford , † July 7, 2005 in London ) was one of four men the police believe they carried out a terrorist attack on the London public transport system on July 7, 2005 . At least 56 people died and over 700 were seriously injured. The police assume that the attacks were caused by suicide bombings .
Tanweer is identified by Scotland Yard as the man who detonated the bomb on the Circle Line of the London Underground between Liverpool Street and Aldgate stations , killing at least seven people.
Life
Shehzad Tanweer was born in Bradford as the son of Mohammed Mumtaz Tanweer from Faisalabad and his wife Parveen Akhtar. His father had lived in Leeds since 1984 and was a respected businessman there, he ran a fish and chip shop. During his high school days, Shehzad Tanweer was considered a good athlete and politically moderate. He later began studying sports at Leeds Metropolitan University . He frequented an Islamic youth center in Leeds, where he met Mohammad Sidique Khan , another of the alleged assassins.
In November 2004 he traveled to Pakistan with Khan, where he visited a madrasa near Lahore . He stayed there until February 2005.
On the day of the attack, he traveled to London with Khan, Hasib Hussain and Germaine Lindsay . There the group separated. Tanweer boarded the subway line 204 in an easterly direction, where, according to police reports, he detonated a bomb hidden in a backpack at 8:50 a.m. Tanweer was killed in the explosion and was identified from body parts.
Police found 16 more bombs in his car. These were similar to those later used in the failed July 21st attacks.
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| SURNAME | Tanweer, Shehzad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British suspected terrorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bradford , West Yorkshire , England , United Kingdom |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 2005 |
| Place of death | London , England , UK |