Today's front pages

In the London newspapers this morning, the front pages reflect on the horror of the attacks themselves, and begin to turn to the hunt for the bombers and the ongoing search for the missing.

The Guardian leads on the death toll passing 50, and quotes Sir Ian Blair, Metropolitan police commissioner, who said rescuers are involved in a "job of extraordinary horror". The paper prints a powerful account from Sergeant Steve Betts of the British Transport Police, who was one of the first rescuers to reach the stricken Piccadilly line train deep under King's Cross.

"I thought, this is the worst thing I have ever seen. I am not very good in confined spaces at the best of times and we had to climb over bodies and body parts to try to help people who were still alive. I though this is the end of the world, right here in this carriage, but you have to do your job."

The Sun brings pictures of two of the missing together on its front page – Laura Webb and Shahara Islam, alongside the words: “Two beautiful, decent women. One Christian. One Muslim. Both missing with dozens more. Pray for them all.” The Independent focuses on Shahara on its front page, saying she was “a devout Muslim with all her life before her".

It continues: “…now this young woman, who so confidently straddled the twin cultures of her mosque and her city, is missing. She is feared dead, a victim of the horrific violence wreaked on London this week, almost certainly by the terrorists of al-Qaida, murdering and maiming in the name of her death”.