Police name six more victims of London atrocity

Officers said Shyanuja Parathasangary, 30, of Kensal Rise, was believed to have died at Tavistock Square in the number 30 bus explosion.

She had been travelling to work at the Royal Mail offices in Alder Street.

Miriam Hyman, 31, of Barnet, is also thought to have died on the bus. A spokesman said that William Wise and Shahara Islam, 20, of Plaistow, east London, also died on the bus.

Ciaran Cassidy, 22, who lived with his parents in Finsbury Park, died at the Russell Square site.

Dental technician Mihaela Otto, 46, known as Michelle, of Mill Hill, died on the Piccadilly line between King's Cross and Russell Square.

Police said the name of another female victim would be released later today and confirmed that details of a male victim are being verified. A total of 11 victims of the London bombings have now been identified.

Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons that at least 52 people died during the attacks. The final death toll is expected to be higher.

Inquests will also take place today into the deaths of eight of those identified, including Jamie Gordon, 30, and Philip Russell, 28. The first victim to be named was mother-of-two Susan Levy, 53, from Newgate Street Village, Herts. Her husband Harry said her family were "distraught".

An inquest into her death has been opened and adjourned at St Pancras Coroners' Court in London by Dr Andrew Reid.

Mrs Levy, mother of Daniel, 25, and James, 23, died in the Underground blast at King's Cross.

Mr Gordon, of Enfield, north London, and Mr Russell, from west London, were killed in the bus explosion.

Meanwhile, a total of 51 bomb victims remained in hospital today, health officials said.

The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead was treating five patients, all in a stable condition. Ten patients were left in Bloomsbury's University College Hospital, four of who were in intensive care.

At the Royal London, in Whitechapel, 15 were still being treated, six of them in intensive care.

Twelve patients were being treated at St Thomas' Hospital. One was in a critical but stable condition, with the rest stable.

In St Mary's Hospital, in Paddington, five patients remained, whose conditions ranged from critical to being treated for minor injuries.

The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital's specialist burns unit had two patients, both of whom were stable.Two patients in a stable condition were being treated at Charing Cross Hospital.