Tube travellers displayed "remarkable heroism" in risking their lives to help injured and dying victims of the 7/7 attacks, an inquest has heard.
An off-duty doctor ignored orders to leave the Aldgate train so she could continue giving life-saving assistance, while passengers on a second service clambered into the carriage blown up at Edgware Road to aid the wounded.
Dramatic video showing the wreckage of the three Tube trains and the bus targeted by suicide bombers in London on July 7 2005 was played to the hearing.
Hugo Keith QC, counsel to the inquests, said the emergency services were confronted by a "horrifying scene of mangled flesh, torn bodies, debris and metal".
Maimed bodies with amputated limbs lay scattered throughout the carriages as paramedics attempted to distinguish between the dead and the dying in the darkness.
On the Aldgate train the set of double doors closest to where Shehzad Tanweer, 22, detonated his bomb were completely ripped off.
Among the heroes of the Aldgate bombing was Gerardine Quaghebeur, a consultant neurologist who was sitting in the same carriage as Tanweer.
After the blast London Underground staff told her to join the other passengers escaping down the track, but she stayed to help the injured and dying, the inquests heard.
The inquests at the Royal Courts of Justice in London have a wide-ranging remit to examine whether the emergency services' response was adequate and whether MI5 and the police could have prevented the attacks.
The hearing continues on Wednesday with evidence about the four bombers' journeys to London on July 7 2005.
