A British court has been shown dramatic film footage that prosecutors say shows a would-be suicide bomber trying to detonate a bomb in a London underground train on July 21, 2005.
The footage was shown on the second day of the trial of six men accused of failed attacks on the London transport system, just two weeks after suicide bombers killed 52 people there.
Chief prosecutor Nigel Sweeney said the images captured by closed circuit cameras were of one of the accused, Ramzi Mohamed. He was seen on the footage turning his rucksack, which contained a makeshift bomb towards a woman with a child in a stroller.
The film showed passengers turning and fleeing in terror into adjoining carriages, as the bomb failed to explode.
Prosecutor Sweeney told the high-security Woolwich Crown Court that the defendants had devised an "extremist Muslim plot" to carry out suicide bombings on London's transport system. Four of the six accused succeeded in triggering detonators on bombs that they were carrying, but on all four, the bombs themselves failed to explode.
The failed attacks triggered a huge manhunt. All the main suspects on trial were arrested just over a week after the failed attacks. They are all in their twenties, and all are originally from East Africa.
All six men deny the charges. The trial is expected to last three or four months.
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