WATCH: Nana Akua shares personal connection to Brixton nail bomb attack

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GB News presenter Ben Leo has recalled his personal experience of the 2017 London Bridge terror attack after coming face to face with one of the victims's bodies.Speaking on Britain's Newsroom, Ben reflected on the horrific ordeal, declaring he will "never forget the sight" of what he witnessed.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00Well, I went down for a sandwich during the London Bridges hack

00:04at Borough Market.

00:05I was working in the news building there.

00:07I went down and I stumbled across all the bodies there.

00:10And I've spoken about it a few times.

00:11And I was with one young Australian girl.

00:12Her name was Sarah Zeleniak, and she'd had her throat cut.

00:15And she was one of the five victims.

00:17But I will never forget the sign.

00:19I was standing over her.

00:20I was just staring at her thinking I couldn't quite compute

00:23what was going on.

00:24I didn't know why she wasn't moving.

00:26But she was dead.

00:28I concluded she was dead.

00:29But I'll never forget that sign.

00:30But I don't think it's really affected me that much.

00:33I cried that night.

00:34I was shaken up.

00:35But I don't think it...

00:36I mean, some people say to me, you're going to have to deal with that

00:37in the future.

00:38But I don't think it affected me too much.

00:39So my relative, who's actually Callum's auntie,

00:42she was actually on the tube.

00:44And they got evacuated from the tube.

00:46So that was the only reason she was on the bus.

00:48And she went upstairs and she wanted a window seat.

00:51And there was only one.

00:52And she actually asked somebody to move so that she could sit

00:54in that window seat.

00:55And when you see the pictures of the bus,

00:57there are just some seats left at the front.

00:59And she was in that last seat.

01:01And so she played over why she made that decision to get on in the first

01:05and why she went for that seat.

01:07You know, unfortunately, it's quite a religious family.

01:09And I think she finds her fate.

01:10What about the person next to her, whose seat that she'd swapped with?

01:14No, no.

01:15Those two seats were there, but it was all the seats behind.

01:18Wow.

01:19Yeah, incredible.

01:20Is it fate?

01:20Is it luck?

01:21Who knows?

01:22Well, you know, the...

01:23My little story is in Brixton, where the Brixton bomb was.

01:26And I was actually going to meet one of my best friends at the time,

01:30a girl called Penny.

01:31And she was coming from...

01:32She was coming from Essex.

01:33She was going to come and meet me.

01:35And she'd said, oh, no, don't bother, don't bother.

01:36I said, no, no, no, I'll meet you there.

01:37She goes, no, no, no.

01:39She goes, no, no, don't bother.

01:40I said, no, I'll come to meet you at Brixton.

01:41No, no, no.

01:42I like a good walk.

01:43It's fine.

01:44So I said, all right, all right, I won't meet you.

01:46And in fact, her tube stopped at Stockwell

01:48because the nail bomb had happened

01:50and I would have been standing outside of that Brixton station

01:54at that time had she not said, no, don't come and meet me.

01:57She felt very shaken because...

01:58I don't know, because I'm struggling to say it,

01:59but my cousin died on the bus.

02:02On 7-7?

02:03Yeah.

02:03Bless you.

02:04What was her name?

02:05No, his name was Anthony.

02:06Anthony?

02:07Yeah.

02:07God rest his soul.

02:08But, yeah, he didn't make it.

02:09What do you remember of that day?

02:11Funnily enough, I'd been using the King's Cross train

02:13and I'd quit just the week before,

02:15so I wasn't going on my normal route that day.

02:18And then when we found out,

02:20anyway, it's like, yeah,

02:21it was about just to think that he was at the back.

02:23Yeah.

02:23Even at the front.

02:24At the back.

02:25I'm so sorry.

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