The confirmed death toll from yesterday’s coordinated bomb attacks in London has risen to at least 50–making it the deadliest attack in London since the Second World War. More than 700 people were injured in the attacks. A massive intelligence investigation is now under way and evidence is emerging that the attacks may have been carried out using timing devices, raising comparisons to the Madrid bombings. A previously unknown group calling itself the Secret Organization Group of al-Qaeda of Jihad Organisation in Europe claimed to be behind the attacks. In a statement posted on an Islamist website, the group said the attacks were “in revenge of the massacres that Britain is committing in Iraq and Afghanistan.” We will have much more on this in just a few moments.