ONE SURVIVOR OF THE 7/7 London terror attacks has blamed emergency services protocols for delays he claims meant people died in agony.

Michael Henning, who survived despite standing near suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer on the train involved in the Aldgate Tube station bombing, was presenting evidence at the inquest of the 2005 bombings.

Fifty-two people died in the attacks.

Hennig said that after he evacuated the station, he approached firefighters outside and asked them why there weren’t “down there” helping people.

He said one fireman replied that they were concerned about a secondary explosion.

“There were people that may have survived if they had got urgent medical response there and then,” Henning is quoted in the Telegraph. He said some people died in agony for up to 40 minutes and “should have had the dignity of having some morphine or something of that nature”.

Henning said he was not criticising individuals, but said that the emergency services were curtailed by their protocols. “When they were allowed to do their job, they did it absolutely brilliantly,” he said.

Fellow Aldgate survivor Camilla Kingsland said that she has been haunted by the images she saw that day, and was “affected by the thoughts that I left people behind in the dark”, the Guardian reports.