135 DEAD IN 7 BLASTS IN BOMBAY

Evil Angel · Jul 11, 2006

New Delhi: Seven major explosions rocked Mumbai on Tuesday. The serial blasts occurred at Borivili, Khar, Meera Road, Matunga, Jogeshwari, Bhayander railway stations and a seventh on the Khar-Santacruz subway.

Maharashtra DGP P S Pasricha said 135 people are feared killed and over 300 people injured in the serial blasts.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said he believed that over 300 people have been injured in the serial blasts.

He has also announced Rs 1 lakh compensation to the families of the dead.

Mumbai Helpline Number: 022-22005388

All seven were high-intensity explosions and initial reports said wired timing devices were used in all the cases.

Some of the injured were taken to the nearby V N Desai Hospital.

Eyewitnesses at Matunga railway station said the RPF jawans arrived only half-an-hour after the blast occured.

Rescuers used bedsheets and other pieces of clothes that were on hand to remove the dead and injured from trains and platforms to nearby hospitals.

Limbs were strewn and blood was splattered all over the compartments where the blasts took place while all the coaches suffered excessive damage, most of them being ripped off.

Since all explosions took place when the trains were either getting into the railway stations or leaving the stations, police officials suspect that either the explosive devices were remote-controlled or fitted with timer devices.

Many of the passengers from adjoining compartments, who were not injured in the blasts, sustained injuries while attempting to jump out of moving trains.

The passengers themselves lent a helping hand in removing the dead and moving the injured out of the mangled train compartments and shifted them to adjoining places from where they were taken to hospitals.

Sources said it was not possible to comment on the nature of explosives used in the blasts as forensic experts and the bomb detection and disposal squads are reaching the spots to collect evidences.

Ammonium nitrate, which is commonly available, had been consistenly used in previous blasts in Mumbai and looking at the nature of damage that has occurred to the railway compartments, police officials do not rule out the possibility of the use of the same chemical in Tuesday's blasts.

The first blast occurred at Khar on a train going from Church Gate to Borivili. The explosion took place at 6:25 PM between Santacruz and Khar station.

CNN-IBN Correspondent Jency Jacob, who was on the train, said the blast took place in a first-class compartment. He said several blood-stained bodies were seen lying on the tracks.

All the explosions took place in first-class compartments of the trains. The Matunga blast appears to be the most severe blast at the moment.

The first five blasts occurred within a span of 15 minutes. Some of the injured have been taken to the Raheja hospital in Mahim.

Another 20 injured were admitted to the KEM hospital in Central area of Parel, hospital sources said.

Mumbai city has been put on red alert, all local trains on Western Railway have been stopped.

Relief and rescue operations have been affected because of heavy rains.

All local phones, including mobile services, in the city has been jammed apparently due to congestion in the system as anxious people tried to reach their loved ones.

All major railway stations, temples and major monuments in and around Mumbai have been cordoned off. All Western Railway services have been suspended.

Mumbai Police Commissioner AN Roy has appealed to the people of Mumbai to remain calm.

Union Home Secretary V K Duggal said that there is no connection between the Mumbai blasts and the Kashmir blasts, which took place earlier on Tuesday.

Intelligence sources, however, said the terror strikes were an attempt by the terrorists to divert India's attention from elections which are being held in Pak-occupied-Kashmir on Tuesday.

Police Commissioner Roy said the blasts could be related to the terrorists who were arrested a few days back. Police had also recovered huge consignments of RDX from several places, including Aurangabad, Nasik and Malegaon
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i was at one of the stations when the blast occured and let me tell you that it was bad.My hand got hurt due to one of the flying metal pieces but i'm okay.

Man i hate my country for going soft on terror.I mean is a stupid piece of land called Kashmir more important than people????Now i know how people in Israel and Palestine feel.This all arises because India is ruled by a bunch of old cunts.India is more interested in shownin the world that is a nuclear and economic power.Its high time it showed the world the problems it faces especially due to its neighbour.

I'M STILL SHAKY NOW.GOODNIGHT

Christopher · Jul 11, 2006

Wow, that sounds really serious. I hope you're okay.

I guess people just won't stop fighting untill everyone is dead... It's so stupid.

Evil Angel · Jul 11, 2006

St0f said:

Wow, that sounds really serious. I hope you're okay.

I guess people just won't stop fighting untill everyone is dead... It's so stupid.
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yeah i'm alright at home.but everything was so gory.I can't desribe the scenes of blood,limbs heads and ugh...i can't go on.

i heard New York and London have been put on high alert too

Anthony. · Jul 12, 2006

So disgusting. When will it stop? It's pretty sure the Kashmir dispute is still at the root of such acts... It's been an active conflict since many years, and has been responsible for many deaths... Have any lessons been learned? It doesn't seem to be the case.

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