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Agony of search for loved ones
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QUICKVOTEYOUR E-MAIL ALERTSLONDON, England (CNN) -- Relatives and friends were continuing an agonizing search for the missing in the London bombings that killed at least 50 people. In a chilling flashback to the aftermaths of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the Asian tsunami, loved ones trawled hospitals desperately hoping someone knew something. At the blast scenes there were posters and photos of the missing on walls and trees. Police meanwhile said Saturday they had not been able to identify bodies because of the horrific nature of the injuries to those who died. A support center to help families of victims of the London terror attacks opened Saturday at Westminster. It will give information and advice to people worried about missing relatives. Vanessa Waters was at King's Cross Saturday distributing leaflets asking for news of her boyfriend Christian Small. She told CNN's Richard Quest she became worried when she could not contact him on his mobile phone. "His voicemail now is full. There's no getting through to his phone -- he had his phone with him," she said. "The police have not been able to tell us anything. They have taken a lot of information from us but they haven't been able to give us any information so far," she said. Yvonne Nash, 30, an events marketing manager from Enfield, north London, was searching for her boyfriend Jamie Gordon, a worker in London's financial district, in Tavistock Square where the bus exploded. She told the UK's Press Association: "I just have to find him. I have to know what happened. You cannot sleep, cannot eat when you are that worried about somebody." (Cell phone found, owner missing) Among the missing pictured on the front pages of Britain's newspapers Saturday was 20-year-old devout Muslim Shahara Islam, who has not been seen since taking a District Line train towards her work at a north London bank. She is believed to have been in the train hit by a blast near Liverpool Street station. Shahara's uncle Nazmul Hasan told PA: "Her mother and father have fallen to pieces over this." Hasan branded the perpetrators of the attacks "inhuman." Pictured alongside Islam in The Sun newspaper was Laura Webb, 29. Said the Sun: "Two beautiful, decent women. One Christian. One Muslim. Both missing with dozens more. Pray for them all." Webb would have been taking a train from King's Cross to Paddington, her boyfriend Chris Driver said. "I just hope she may have knocked her head or something like that, and that she is somewhere being looked after," Driver told PA. Flowers, notes and appeals for information were piled outside King's Cross station, where bodies were still trapped deep underground. Karolina Gluck, 29, from Poland, said goodbye to boyfriend Richard Deer, 28, at 8:30 a.m. and has not been seen since, PA reported. The office worker was traveling from Finsbury Park station to Russell Square for work. Her twin sister Magda said: "We are really worried. We don't know what's happened to her. The worst thing is waiting for a phone call." Former tour guide Mike Matsushita, 37, originally from Vietnam, is also missing. Girlfriend Rosie Cowan, 27, a retail consultant for a travel company, told PA she was "trying to be optimistic" about what happened. "Maybe he took off his jacket with his ID in it on the Tube," she said. "I am too young to become a grieving widow." Miriam Hyman, in her 20s and from Finchley, north London, was feared by her father John, in his 70s, to have taken a bus from King's Cross. Friends posted notices at the station with her photograph. Connie Law, 33, and her mother, Elena Law, 72, visited the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, Saturday to look for a missing family friend Mihaela Otto, a dental technician, PA said. She was thought to have been traveling on the Piccadilly Line between King's Cross and Russell Square on Thursday morning when one of the bombs went off. Connie told PA: "Her family were called by her work to say she hadn't turned up. They tried to contact her on her mobile but haven't been able to. Her family are quite distraught." They spoke to police at the hospital but there was no record of Otto being admitted. Law told PA: "There are a lot of people in the same situation. We're doing all that we can." Shyanuja Parathasangary, 30, has not been seen by her parents since she left the home they share in Kensal Rise on Thursday morning to go to work, PA said. Her mother, Ruth, said she boarded a train at Kensal Green at 8:55 a.m. and arrived at Euston station at 9:08 a.m. Mrs. Parathasangary believes her daughter may have then got on the No. 30 bus to take her to work at the Royal Mail postal offices. The bus that exploded was a No. 30. "She did not say anything when she left, she just gave me a sweet smile," Mrs. Parathasangary said, adding she and her husband had visited five of the capital's hospitals desperately looking for their daughter. Also among the missing was hair stylist Phil Beer, 22, who was with a friend who was injured in the Tube blast near King's Cross. His sister Stacy, 24, said she and her parents were feeling "emotionally drained." "It's the wait that's the worst," she said. "There is nothing we can do." Friends and relatives who had mounted a desperate search for Martine Wright, 32, had mixed emotions when they finally found her, Saturday's Daily Mail newspaper and the BBC reported. Sarah Jones and Jacqui Larcombe had wept as they handed out photos of their friend to passers-by, PA reported. Wright, a marketing director who works at Tower Hill, failed to turn up for work and was feared to have been on the train that was bombed near Liverpool Street station. Saturday's Mail reported that the friends had found her late on Friday night but she was in intensive care. The BBC said she was in critical condition. Copyright 2005 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report. 
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