A HUDDERSFIELD doctor was at the centre of the dramatic rescue mission after the London terrorist attacks.

And today Dr Mohib Khan, who was near the centre of the blast which ripped apart a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square, relived the nightmare.

He helped treat passengers following the explosion.

The confirmed death toll in all the blasts is 37.

Dr Khan, a specialist in urology at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, was visiting the British Medical Association headquarters in London for a meeting.

He said he was in the BMA house for a meeting at 9.30am.

He said: "I was deeply involved. I was right in the middle of it.

"Just before 10am I heard a blast. It shook the entire building like an earthquake. I knew it was a bomb.

"We rushed outside into the courtyard and people were screaming for doctors.

"When we came out it was devastation.

"There were dead bodies.

"One sight I will never forget is seeing just the chest and abdomen of a body - there were no limbs left at all.

"The whole abdomen was hanging out.

"There were two dead bodies."

Dr Khan, of Edgerton, regularly visits the city, where he chairs the BMA's staff and associate specialists' committee.

Today he told health officials in Huddersfield he was "absolutely exhausted".

Dr Khan was the first overseas-born doctor to be elected to the council of the Royal College of Surgeons.

The front of BMA House in Tavistock Square in central London was splattered with blood and body parts were strewn across the road, said one doctor who helped treat the bomb victims.

The building was used as a mini-hospital while casualties were moved away from the road and waited to be taken to hospital.

Dr Laurence Buckman, from the BMA's GPs committee, said ambulance staff told him there were about 10 people dead in the blast.

He said two people died in the BMA courtyard as doctors tried to treat them.

"The most extreme thing I first noticed as I walked in was that there was someone in bits in the road.

"The front of BMA House was completely splattered with blood and not much of the bus was left," Dr Buckman added.

The GP said he saw the bus driver, who was among the walking wounded at the scene of the blast. He seemed to be uninjured.

Doctors were treating patients for shock, administering drips and stemming bleeding, working alongside other emergency staff.

Dr Buckman said emergency crews arrived on the scene very quickly to help treat the casualties.

He said BMA doctors helped treat about nine people who were seriously injured, two of whom died.

About another nine walking wounded were taken inside the BMA building to be looked after.

Dr Peter Holden, chairman of the BMA's professional fees committee, said lives were saved because of the treatment doctors at the BMA were able to administer to casualties.

Dr Holden was in BMA House when the bus exploded. He waited a short time in case there was a secondary device before going out to attend to patients.

He said about 14 doctors and a nurse worked alongside ambulance staff to treat casualties, including several who were very seriously injured.

"Our doctors were on the scene first.

"Many of these doctors had not used these skills for upwards of 20 years, but it is amazing what the human body and mind can do when the skills are remembered," Dr Holden said.

* An Iraq veteran from Huddersfield has relived the moment his packed Tube train stopped and the lights went out 100 feet underground during the bombings.

Paul Kavanagh, from Oakes, was on his way to work as a facilities manager for a insurance company when terrorists detonated a bomb on a Circle Line train.

Mr Kavanagh, who left the Army as a staff sergeant in 2004, said: "The train lurched to a stop between Tower Hill and Aldgate.

"The lights went out and there was the smell of smoke.

"People started panicking. There were a lot of very scared people."