London, July 8 (Reuters): The driver of a London double-decker bus survived and helped wounded and dying passengers when a blast ripped its roof off during yesterday’s bomb attacks.

“I tried to help the poor people,” the 49-year-old driver, who was not named, said on his company’s website in his first public comments since the attack which killed 13.

“Suddenly there was a bang, then carnage. Everything seemed to happen behind me,” the driver said. “At first I thought how am I alive, when everyone is dying around me?”

“The police then had to take me away as they were concerned there might be further explosions,” he said, adding he would not change jobs.