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whodunit?The timing of the blasts is significant.Indo-Pak talks have resumed; Pakmilitary is under attack; Kasabs trialis on. How does Pak armyrespond? They attack India.Its a diversionary tactic. Theintention is to provoke India.

CD Sahay, former RAW chief

Mihir Vasavda MUMBAI

I have a habit of walking into trouble. I dont knowif it is my bad luck that Im invariably at the wrongplace at the wrong time. After the serial train blastsin July 2006, I found myself in the middle of anoth-er nightmarish situation on Wednesday.

I was cursing the peak-hour rush and pot-holed roads near Dr Antonio DSilva

School near Dadar. Thepheriwalaswere doing brisk sales and office-goers were muscling their way towards Dadar station. Suddenly,there was a deafening sound notonce, but twice. The first blast wasfollowed by a relatively lower one.But it was enough to create panic.

I could see people running fortheir lives amid huge billows ofsmoke everywhere. There werecars with broken windows, dam-aged shops and injured people. Thesight was depressing.

Mihir is a sports correspondent withDNA

DNA Correspondent MUMBAI

The investigating agencies, working to find out theperpetrators behind the triple blasts that rocked Mum-bai on Wednesday, are prima facie suspecting the in-volvement of the terror outfit, Indian Mujahideen(IM), which has been instrumental in a series of blastsacross the country since 2006.

Investigators suspect that the way in which the blastshave been executed point to the involvement of theterror group, which has earlier used similar modusoperandi. The usage of vehicles, IEDs, cars and mo-torbikes show their involvement. Initial investigationsindicate that cell phone alarms were used to detonatethe IEDs, a police officer said. The intensity of the blastsindicate the use of RDX, which the group has used inearlier blasts like the German bakery blast in 2010.

The Bhatkal brothers (Riyaz and Iqbal) from Kar-

nataka head the IM group, which claims responsibili-ty by sending emails to various media houses. Intelli-gence agencies suspect both brothers to be hiding inBangladesh. At present, more than 20 IM operatives arelodged in various jails in the country awaiting trial.

Did the IB see it coming?

Last week, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) alerted allstates that the Jamaat ud Dawa and the IM were plan-ning to send in fresh batches of militants in the coun-try. According to the input, IB agents had interceptedtelephonic conversations from within Pakistan occu-pied Kashmir indicating fresh infiltration plans as thecurrent batch of sleeper cells and operatives were ei-ther exposed or arrested. A central intelligence officerbased in Delhi said there was a lull in terror activitiesafter the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai. Now, it isclear they were merely regrouping, he said.

Suicide bomberat work?

Doctors at JJ Hospital taking X-rays of the blast victims bodies beforeconducting post-mortems found what appeared to be a circuit in one ofthe corpses. An investigation is on to find out if the object entered thebody during the blast or if the victim was a suicide bomber.

DEAD IN 3 BLASTS ATDADAR, OPERA HOUSE

AND ZAVERI BAZAAR

21

INJURED IN FIRSTMAJOR ATTACK IN

CITY AFTER 26/11

130 20

NUMBER OF MINUTES WITHIN WHICH COORDINATEDBLASTS TOOK PLACE. ATTACK CAME TWO DAYS AFTER

THE 11/7 SERIAL TRAIN BLASTS ANNIVERSARY

AT OPERA HOUSE Courtesy: Zee News

Terrorreared its ugly head in Mumbai with three blasts in the heart of the cityduring peak houron Wednesday. As innocent Mumbaikars lost their lives,the govt only managed to ask people to keep calm. Forhow long,we ask?

Team DNAMUMBAI

The feeling was sickeningly familiar when threebombs ripped through the city on Wednesdayevening killing 21 and injuring 130. The figuresare expected to rise. Exactly five years ago on July11, a series of seven blasts on local trains on theWestern line had killed 188 and injured 824.

Wednesdays mayhem started at 6.45pm whena powerful IED went off at the 3rd Agyari Lane,behind Bank of Indias Bullion Exchangebranch, near Khau Galli in Zaveri Bazaar. In-

vestigations showed bombs fitted with timerswere kept in a scooter and a bike, parked at a dis-tance of 6-7ft of each other, outside a shop. Atleast seven people were killed and 17 injured.

Devendra Dagia, a jeweller from Zaveri Bazaarwho was in his office when the blast took place,said he rushed out when he heard a loud noise.Initially I thought it was a cylinder blast in oneof the food stalls. Later I found out it was a bombblast, he said. The effect was such that the en-tire spot was strewn with body parts. The entirestretch of road was bloody. Many of the dead orinjured are familiar faces.

Within 10 minutes another bomb went off in alane next to the Pancharatna Building at 6.55pm.Investigations showed the bomb was planted ona motorcycle parked next to a Wagon R.

Jitendra Shah, a Bhayander resident, whoworks at a brokerage firm in Pancharatna build-ing, said he could not feel anything after hear-ing the blast. Initially I thought it was a cylin-der blast; later I saw people lying on the floor andblood splattered everywhere, Shah said. I anda few other people moved 10 bodies to hospital.

Exactly 10 minutes later, at 7.05pm, a bombwent off near a bus stop outside the Dr AntonioDSilva School near Kabutarkhana, Dadar (West).

The entire bus stop was ripped apar t and a Maru-ti Esteem car passing by was damaged. The po-lice said the motive was clear: maximum dam-age by targeting crowded areas. The modusoperandi is typical of the Indian Mujahideen.

Panic, chaos, anger at thethree blast sites

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City hospitals go intooverdrive

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July jinx: An unendinglist of tragedies

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All about the IndianMujahideen

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Previous terror strikesin Mumbai

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MUMBAI BOMBED. AGAIN

Indian Mujahideen the prime suspect

People just ran; thesight was depressing

DADAR: KABUTARKHANA

The entirestretch ofroad wasbloody

WILL CITY SPRING BACK TO LIFE TODAY?

Schools/Colleges: Dadars

Antonio DSilva School near which ablast took place will remain shut today.

Other institutes will remainopen. We advise parentsto take their own

decisions, said SunilChavan, deputy director of education.

Home ministry confirmed thatit was a terrorist attack

Seven Improvised ExplosiveDevices were used in thethree blasts

Ammonium Nitrate issuspected to have been usedin the three blasts

NIA team sent from Delhi tocollect forensic evidence

Extreme high alert in Mumbai

All states in country put onhigh alert

CCTV has captured images atOpera House till the blast tookplace, but the camera wasdamaged after the attack

Cellphone timer deviceslikely to be used to detonatethe IEDs

TERROR COMES CALLING AFTER 26/11

Suburban trains:Suburban

trains will run as usual. Security hasbeen stepped up across all rail

networks. There will be nocurtailment or changes inservices, chief

spokespersons for theCentral and Western Railways said.

BEST buses: Commuters wont

be inconvenienced as BEST buses toowill ply without any change in routes.

Our services will be on asusual. There will be nodiversions either,

NA Walawalkar, BESTspokesperson, told DNA.

Hospital Dead Injured

JJ 1 13St George 1 14GT 4 10Saifee 5 37Harkisondas 5 36KEM - 9Nair 1 1Bhatia - 2Sushrusha - 2Bombay - 6

Four other bodies were found at the blastsites and later taken to hospitals

Zaveri Bazaar, immediately after the blast

Courtesy: Zee News

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When the blasthappened I rushed tomy balcony and sawthat the air was filledwith heavy smoke andthings were barelyvisible. However, I couldsee three people lyinginjured and two bikeshad also fallen.

Ravindra Sawney,Dadar resident

It is suspected that thebombs were planted ona scooter and amotorbike which wasparked outside a ZaveriBazaar shop. Timer-fitted bombs were used

Sr ATS official

Somendra Sharma andDivyesh Singh

The Zaveri Bazaar blast tookplace at third agyari lane be-hind Bank of Indias BullionExchange branch, near KhauGalli between 6.45 pm, onWednesday. The timer-fittedbombs were suspected to beplaced on two vehicles -- ascooter and a motorbike,which were parked outside ashop at the spot. Two vehicleswere parked within 6 to 10feet distance. Total 7 personswere declared dead and 17 in- jured. The spot where theblast occurred is a very nar-

row lane and hence it was dif-ficult for people to run and forfire-brigade to reach the spot.

In this blast, the third ag-yari lane, Khau gully has lostits one of the most famous pa-pad-seller who was fondlyknown as Ajay Khichiyawala.People from all over ZaveriBazaar visited Ajaysmakeshift stall in the agyarilane almost every evening tomunch on the deliciouskhichiyapapdad that he sold.Ajay who was in his late 30shas been in the business frompast more than three years.

Jagdish Das, who works asa watchman for D D Plaza,which is ten meters away fromthe blast spot said, There was

a loud noise followed by sud-den fire and smoke. Peoplestarted running helter skelterin panic. The glasses of win-dow panes fell down crashing.Another eyewitness, JitendraJain, who runs a jewellry shopin DD Plaza said, There was achaotic situation at the blastspot. After the blast, withinaround three minutes policereached the location from theirregular bandobast spot ofMumbadevi temple. Entryand exit of all the bylanes havebeen barricaded by police.

BJP leader, RajPurohit,said This is the thirdblast in this particular area.

In 1993, it was Kamba Kataarea, in the year 2003 it wasnear Mumbaievi temple andnow this. All these blastshave occurred within 100meters of area. The reasonof targeting this locationis bacause it is financialhub of the city. It is an as-sault on the economy ofthe city.

A senior ATS officialwho was at the spot, said,It is suspected that thebombs were planted on ascooter and a motorbikewhich was parked outside ashop. Timer-fitted bombswere used. It is also suspectedthat ammonium nitrate couldhave been used in the IED.

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Letters to the editor

A firm stand

Solicitor General (SG) GopalSubramanium deservespraise for taking a firmstand. For the past couple of

years, the Union govern-ment has come under severestrictures from the SupremeCourt over the way it han-dled the various scams andthe court cases related tothem. Though the SG's officedid a valiant job of defend-ing the government, unwill-ingly at times, it was at thereceiving end of the apexcourt because of the enor-mity of its guilt in acqui-escing to great impropri-eties. The SG could hardlybe blamed for the predica-ment it finds itself in. Byputting in his papers, citingthe government's interfer-ence in his work as the rea-son, the SG has shown thathe is a law officer of thecourt and not the servant ofthe government. He hasalso protected the dignity ofhis office.

VS Kaushik, Bengaluru

Convincing victory

This is with reference to'Fear of losing overcomesDhoni & Co' (July 12). I total-ly disagree with the reportthat the fear of losing hasprompted Dhoni and co. notto attempt a gettable score.Dhoni is the best captain In-dia has ever had. With threewickets down for 94 runsand Suresh Raina back inthe pavilion, chasing a tar-get of 180 on a difficult trackwould not have been easy ascorrectly observed byDhoni. No doubt RahulDravid may be the man ofcrisis, but the speed withwhich he plays may not besufficient to achieve the tar-get in the in ODI or T20.Dhoni knew this and no sen-sible captain will take suchrisk, with the series alreadyin his pocket. India has won

the T20, ODI and now thetest series convincingly, ifnot comprehensively.

Deendayal M Lulla,Mumbai

II

India's decision to settle fora draw in the third and finaltest against West Indies isnot without its quota of crit-icism ('Fear of losing over-comes Dhoni & Co', July 12).It was too timid a decision topull down the shutters with-out really attempting a win.Buckling up without facing

the challenge was not ex-pected especially when wehad 7 wickets in hand. Notattempting to chase a get-table score not only showsdisregard for the fans butalso brings home the factthat they gave up even be-fore the real battle wasfought. To complete thematch would have giventhem the confidence to takeon a better team while fac-ing the Englishmen. Blam-ing the pitch is a lame ex-cuse. Risks are to be taken,without which there cannotbe any gain.

Prem K Menon, Mumbai

Dealing with

corruption

In the recent past there hasbeen severe criticism aboutthe way the ruling combineand the prime ministerhave handled various issueslike black money, corrup-tion, J & K, Telangana andother issues. It is to be not-ed that some of the issues

for which present govern-ment is being blamed arenot of recent origin. Cor-ruption has been around fora long time but this is the

first time that the govern-ment is seen taking someaction. What we have seenis some people mockingthose who want to take ac-tion. Simply saying 'I do notfear bullet and lathis' willnot bring any result.

SS Nair, via email

II

In the national interest, it isthe paramount duty of theParliamentary committeeand the accounts in-chargeto expose all the corruptpeople in the government.But most unfortunately, thecorruption is propagated bythose who are supposed toprotect the interests of theaam aadmi. If our cleanprime minister, ManmohanSingh would have takentough steps against suchtraitors on time, the nation-al scenario could have beendifferent. Similarly whatsteps have been taken tocurb the spiralling prices ofall the essential commodi-ties by the government? Andeven as the prices increasetonnes of foodgrains are leftout in the open to rot.

Hansraj Bhat, via email

Popular leader

It seems that the leaders ofthe ruling Congress partydon't ever come out of thedynastic mindset, wherebythey always need some onefrom the Gandhi-Nehrufamily to lead the party. Tilldate, Rahul Gandhi hasn'tshown any qualities re-quired to lead our country.He can hardly be consid-ered a popular leader, asthere is hardly any indica-tion of a wave in his favour.

Ketan R Meher, Thane

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Triple blasts rock business hubs

Zaveri Bazaar hit by terror thrice since

1993; all blasts within a 100m radius

Shahkhar Abidi

A thunderclap sounded in alane next to PancharatnaBuilding at Opera House insouth Mumbai at around 6.55pm, taking the passersby andresidents by surprise. Theblast, the most intense of thethree, is suspected to havebeen triggered in a motor cy-cle parked next to a Wagon R

car. The police suspect the ex-plosives were kept in the mo-torcycle because the damagecaused to it is the maximum.

Jitendra Shah, a Bhayan-der resident, who works for abroking firm at Pancharatna,and an eyewitness, said, Iheard the blast sound andwent numb. Initially, I thoughtit was a cylinder blast, but lat-er when I saw people lying onthe floor and blood splatteredeverywhere it sank that it wasa blast. After that, I helpedmove 10 bodies with the helpof others to the hospital.

The area was thereaftercordoned off and people fromlocal areas and shops rushedto the spot to help the injured

and deceased. The injuredwere taken to nearby hospi-tals like Saifee and Hark-ishondas, while those whosuffered minor injuries weretreated at private clinics.

Family members of AsgarFaiz Mohammed, 25, whodied in the blast, said, Werushed to the spot hoping thathe would be safe but we foundhe was no more. The govern-

ment should do something toensure that such blasts dontoccur repeatedly and ourloved ones dont have to losetheir lives.

Kalpesh Surakhia, anotherbroker working at Pan-charatna, said I passed theblast spot just two minutes be-fore and heard the thunder asI was walking and then sawbodies lying on the ground. Iwas lucky to survive and myfirst response to the blast wasto help those injured and ly-ing on the ground.

The police arrived at thespot and cordoned off thearea, while traffic around thezone was diverted to otherroutes.

BangOpera Houseis worst hit

BoomAkshay Deshmane

A relatively less intense bomb rippedthrough the Hanuman Mandir bus stop nearKabutarkhana at 7.05pm on Wednesdayevening. The damage to the people in the sur-roundings was thus correspondingly lesser:only seven people suffered serious injuries.

A smaller number considering the factthat the road is usually choked during theevening rush hours with people. The busstop, residents in the vicinity said, is mostutilised by commuters who alight at the stopfor reaching the Dadar station. A residenteven said, The footpath on which the BESTbus stop is located is the students footpath

during the evenings as their classes get doneby 6.15 pm. The resident was referring to theDr Antonio Da Silva High School and Juniorcollege of commerce.

Ravindra Sawney, another resident of thebuilding located opposite the bus stand wherethe blast took place said, When the blast hap-pened I rushed to my balcony and saw thatthe air was filled with heavy smoke andthings were barely visible. However, I couldsee three people lying injured and two bikeshad also fallen. Also, when the blast hap-pened, the rubble came flying to his house.

Luckily the crowd was less and even thechildren of the school behind the bus-standhad left home. The Police came within 10

minutes of the blast and rushed the injuredto the hospital, he added.

Not to be left alone in publicly expressingtheir sympathies, many politicians made ita point to visit the location while the mediawas hungry for prominent persons voices onthe blast. Manohar Joshi, Nitin Sardesai,Ramdas Athavle, deputy CM Ajit Pawar andthe chief minister also registered their pres-ence at the chaotic site.

The blast site lay exposed to bystandersand anyone in the vicinity as the police strug-gled to control the mobs and the convoy ofthe politicians raising questions about howsecure was he site for investigators to col-lect evidence from.

Fear let loose at KabutarkhanaRUMOUR-MONGERINGThere were rumours that Wednesdays blasts

were a birthday gift for 26/11 terror attack convictand Pakistani national Ajmal Kasab. Messages onFacebook and Twitter that said Kasab was born on

July 13, 1987 went viral in Mumbai. However,Kasabs real birth date, according to jail records,

is September 13, 1987. A Wikipedia entry thatshowed his birth date as July 13 had apparently

been changed by a Chennai-based bankexecutive. He has been traced by the IP addresshe logged in from to change the Wikipedia entry.

Kasab, one of the terrorists involved in 26/11, is isin Arthur Road jail.

TELANGANA TWISTA threat mail was sent from India, routed

through a Saudi Arabian proxy, claim sources inMumbai police cyber cell. Most of the cops feel it

is not a genuine mail and could be a fake entitytrying to gain mileage by infamy. Investigators

feel the MO is distinctly that of IM and not that ofLeT. Besides, an, an aberration from IM MO is

that there is no warning mail that has been sentbefore today's attack. IM religiously follows the

Islamic rule that the enemy should be warnedbefore attack and hence they shoot a mail

minutes before the attack. The organisationclaiming responsibility for 13/7 attack is the

Joint Action Wing of the Hyderabad basedTelangana Agitation Movement (Terror Wing) --- a

hitherto unknown entity.

Blood-soaked victims lie at the blast site at Opera House in south Mumbai on Wednesday. AP

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They may not have been where theblasts happened or anywhereclose, but that did not stop netizensfrom offering whatever little helpthey could.

Micro-blogging site Twitter,which played a significant role inrecent events like the revolts in theMiddle East and the earthquake inJapan, was abuzz with people shar-

ing information, expressing angerand, most importantly, putting uptheir mobile numbers and locationsin case someone needed them.

Anyone stuck in Bandra West,feel free to call me @ 97xxxxxxxxfor a safe place, tweeted Jacob Ro-han Joseph (number masked forprivacy).

While netizens are usually re-luctant to share numbers online,Wednesday saw a slew of twitterusers openly sharing their mobilenumbers in a rare gesture of help.982xxxxxxx. Crossing elphinstone-matunga-sion-Heading to chembur.Anyone. Call me, wrote Neha.

Some tried to work around pri-vacy filters that block any stan-dard data like ten-digit numbers oremail IDs. If youre around Low-er Parel and got no place to go, dropby at my office. Text me on 9XXXXseven two nine nine zero,Dharmesh Gandhi tweeted.

There were also people seekinghelp, like Anja Kovacs: Anyone go-

ing towards Andheri, can you pickme up from Opera House?While there were words of rage

like Baksh do hamare desh kokameeno!!!! Were just regular peo-

ple trying to make it in this world!why all the hate against us!, therewere also those who urged each oth-er to avoid spreading panic andshow restraint in passing on un-verified information.

While a few asked searching ques-tions on terror striking Mumbai inless than three years since the lastattacks, an avalanche of twitteratidescended on them, asking them tokeep the tirade for some other day.

There were a few who even tookon TV channels as the electronic me-dia convulsed erratically in its cov-

erage of the tragedy. Stop irre-sponsible reporting! Stop rumourmongering! Mumbai is reeling yetagain. Star anchors keep out! Dontendanger lives. Where is the CM, ri-

posted celebrity author Shobhaa De.Several users also offered

prayers. Pervin Sanghvi tweeted,Prayers and hugs my beloved city.

City hospitals also saw a numberof good Samaritans offering what-ever help they could. Waiting at HNhospital was diamond merchantSanjay Doshi, 32. His employee ofmany years Sonu, 60, had been in-jured in the blasts. Sonu has no rel-atives in the city, and so its my dutyto take care of him, said Doshi.

There was a flood of blooddonors at the hospital. Deepti

Mehta, 40, came with her husbandto donate blood. However, officialstold them that they had enoughblood. They noted down their num-ber for future reference.

OUTRAGED

They have struckMumbai again to disturbcommunal harmony. Thegovernments priority isto reach out to theinjured. We aredetermined to fight theterrorists

Prithviraj Chavan, CM

I appeal to thepeople of Mumbai toremain calm. Preliminaryreports confirm blastshave been carried out byterrorists. It is not just anattack against Mumbaibut the entire country

Ajit Pawar, deputy CM

People shouldntrely on the govt to

combat terrorists. Theonly weapon we seem tohave is issuing highalerts. People are payingthe price of having aninefficient govt

Bal Thackeray, Sena chief

It is not clear if thetargets of the blast werethe school children sincethe bus stop is hardly5-10 metres from theschool. However, we arenot ruling out anypossibility

Arup Patnaik, police chief

DNA Correspondent

As soon as the blasts took

place the injured were rushedto the nearest hospitals.Sir Hurkisondas Nurro-

tumdas (HN) Hospital nearCharni Road station was thenearest hospital where in-jured were brought from theOpera House blast. The hos-pital has received the maxi-mum number of those caughtin the blast as according to asenior official from HN hos-pital 34 people were broughtto the hospital.

They immediately startedtreating the injured, howev-er two people died soon afteradmitting. According tosources, the death toll rose to5 by 10pm. 30-year-old NarpatBhai who was discharged af-ter being administered firstaid toldDNA, I was standingoutside my shop when theblast occurred and I got in-jured. Mayor Shraddha Jad-hav visited HN hospital

around 9pm.Two people were dead on ar-rival and 3 died later on dueto serious injuries. At the timeof going to press, 5 were in op-eration theatre, 3 in ICU andrest in other wards. The hos-pital said it had enough bloodand other essentials to man-age the tragedy. All the bodieshave been sent to JJ Hospitalfor post mortem.

Meanwhile Goculdas Tej-pal (GT) Hospital in southMumbai received bodies ofthree blast victims, a headwithout body and 28 injured,from the Zaveri Bazar blast.The authorities are in a fixover the head found at thespot. When chief minister

Prithviraj Chavan, accompa-nied by commissioner ofMumbai police Arup Pat-

naik, visited the hospital,they were heckled andmobbed by the crowd inprotest. But Chavan man-aged to inquire about the pa-tients well-being.

The seven people who wereinjured in the blast at Dadarhave been admitted to KEM,according to ATS PI RavindraDoiphode.

In the meantime, a victim,Mohammad Mustafa (21) wascaught in the blast at OperaHouse near the Panchratrnabuilding was taken to theSaifee Hospital. However, hewas turned away due to highcasualty at the hospital.Mustafa was then rushed toNoor Hospital at MohammedAli Road where he was oper-ated upon.

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More than 130 people were rushed to various city

hospitals where services were pushed to the limits

Hospitals go into overdrive

We were in them id dl e o f ameeting in ouroffice right op-posite Kabu-tarkhana,Dadar, whenwe heard a

huge boom. I first thoughtthe roof of our office buildinghad collapsed. We rushed out-side to find people running

helter-skelter.We could hear the screamsof people injured. The busstanding at the bus stopwhere the blast took placewas completely damaged.The windows were shattered,and there were glass piecesand blood on the road.

I saw a woman withher ear cut open. It wasa gruesome sight. Wegathered the injuredbut could not find acab to take them to ahospital. One cab driv-er refused to take the in-jured to the hospital. An an-gry crowd beat him up, afterwhich the driver agreed totake us to KEM Hospital. Wehad rounded up nearly six in-jured people. We later heardthat one of them died at thehospital.

The traffic police were reg-ulating traffic but not a single

cop ventured near the site ofthe bomb blast. After ten min-utes of the blast, the firebrigade arrived on the sceneand the police cordoned off

the area. However, most peo-ple were busy taking pictureson their cell phones ratherthan helping out. Ini tially, wethought the blast was due toa cylinder bursting in a pri-vate car, but news poured inthat it was a bomb blast andhad occurred in other placesas well.

Jayant Jain, president of

NGO Forum for Fairness inDadar (West)

Daughter couldntstop crying

I had just finished some do-mestic shopping at

Dadar market withmy wife and two-year-old daughter.We were planning toeat bhelpuri at the

corner of DSilvaschool (five minutes

away from the blast site) butdecided against it due to thetraffic and rains. Instead, wewalked into an inner lane andescaped the tragedy. The soundof the blast made us shiver.People were running in a stateof panic and I decided to takemy family home. It took morethan an hour to calm down my

daughter who couldnt stopcrying.

Paresh Thirkud, resident,Cadell Road, Dadar (West)

We had steppedout to have tea

and Kisan was inoffice. When wecame back, therewas chaos andKisan wasmissing. We arenow running toSaifee Hospitalwhere someinjured havebeen shifted tosee if he hasbeen taken there

Rajan Mandlik,who was searching for

his friend Kisan

Splintered

Samaritans make socialnetworking forum for help

The blast site at Opera House Zee Network

IRREGULAR Manjul

Web wise

NAMES OF

THE DEAD> Himmatbhai

Kalubhai Gudiya,49

> Lalchand Ahuja, 45

> Mohan Naik, 46

> Sunil Kumar Jain, 45

> Bhupat Nawadia, 42

> Rajesh Khairkar,

> Pankaj Soni, 20

> Deepchand Soni

The rest of the deadhave still not beenidentified

??????????

HOSPITAL NAME INJURED DEAD

Nair Hospital 1 1

KEM 9 0

G T hospital 10 4

J J hospital 13 1

Harkisandas 36 5

Sushrusha 2 0

St George 14 1

Saifee hospital 37 5

B hatia hospit al 2 4

Mumbai hospi tal 6 0

TOTAL 130 17

The generous peopleof Mumbai areoffering help to#Mumbaiblastsvictims viaGoogledocs onlinespreadsheet:spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/lvAmrita Dutt

Roads are okay. Slowmoving traffic butnothing to panic!ET Phone Home

Gosh it really is aWednesday. Lifeimitates art in somedark horrid wayBarkha Dutt

Anger, frustration andhelplessness is NOTthe answer. Hanging

the terrorists alreadyconvicted is. Prayersfor all.Anupam Kher

Early days, but eyeson Pakistan afterMumbai blasts. PakForeign Ministry saysits working up aresponseTom Wright

Dadar resident: bigexplosion around 6:30pm. Thought the roofwas collapsing. I wasterrified. I couldntmove.

Significant damage ata bus station nearchidia ghar, Dadar.Nearby shops sufferedsome broken glass.Lots of bystanders.

Vikas Bajaj

The area where the

blasts have takenplace is Shiv Senacentric. Obviouslyterrorists havesomething against

Shiv SenaAurindamMukherjee

BBC reporting thatMumbai blastscoincide with AjmalKasabs birthday!!!bbc.co.uk/news/world-souMadhuri Khanduja

Just got back fromWorli to Cuffe Parade;Parel, Worli, PeddarRoad, Kemps Corner,Marine Drive & Colabaare fine. Traffic isnormalNikunj Mehta

Most claiming nowthat its Ajmal Kasabbday and its arevenge.. Who arethey going to blame?Pakistan again?Ammar Haider

A very sad day indeedand am sure the taxiunions of Mumbaiwould reconsider theirdecision it is noordinary timeGunjan Chakrabarty

Cant help but wonder:blasts come ahead ofHillary Clintons visitnext week and thevisit of Pakistansforeign minister laterthis monthNidhi Razdan

If someone canexplain how bombinginnocent civilianssolves anything I amall ears... God bless usMahesh Bhupathi

Cowards strike again!Condolences to all

who have lostsomeone dear. To therest, please do notpanic. Get home safe.Farhan Akhtar

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Ground-0People took picturesinstead of helping out

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Hospital authorities and locals wheel in an injured to GT hospital Salman Ansari DNA

It knocked me

senseless

I was talkingon the phonewhen the blastrocked mybuilding. Soonafter the ex-plosion, Istopped my

conversation on the phoneand came out to the balconyto see what had happened. AllI could see was a cloud ofblack smoke rising in the air.I was speechless for some-time. After regaining mysenses, I called my brother.When the smoke cleared andI could see something of thesite, I saw the body of aplumpish man lying invertedon the street. I thought he wasdead but when people in thevicinity came for the rescue,they detected some motion inhis body. A taxi driver wasasked to take the body to hos-pital. He seemed hesitant. Butthen some volunteers tookthe body to hospital in a taxi.The injured body of a sari-clad woman was carried on ayellow tarpaulin sheet, put in-side another taxi and taken tohospital.

Chandrika Bauwa,resident of a building close toHanuman Mandir bus stop in

Dadar (West)