Delhites come together to help blast victims

HOPE AND TRAGEDY: More than 100 injured people were taken care of at Delhi's Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.

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New Delhi: The usual excitement of a Saturday evening was disrupted in Delhi when serial bomb explosions ripped through the city.

The hospitals in the cities became epicenters of rescue work, but along with it emerged stories of immense courage.

More than 100 people have been seriously injured in the blasts and are taken care of at Delhi's Ram Manohar Lohia and Lady Harding hospitals.

Doctors reported for work in spite of being off duty, good Samaritans who decided to stay on and help instead of fleeing the blast site.

Shop owner Shammi Chopra heard the bombs go off near his shop in Karol Bagh. He saw the bloody trail it left behind. He rushed to help, taking 7 people to the hospital.

Fifteen-year-old Puja was out shopping with a friend in Connaught Place when serial blasts ripped through the city but she had a miraculous escape. Her traumatised family is grateful that she is alive.

Mahesh's 26-year-old brother Prithviraj worked in a saree shop in Karol Bagh. At 6 o clock on Saturday evening he stepped out of his shop to buy a pack of cellotape and he never came back.

Mahesh laments, “We were told he was here, but when we got there, they told me he is dead.”

Little children were saved by their mothers, a son wondered how to tell his parents that his brother had died and a family searched frantically for their loved ones.

One night of terror has changed their lives forever and only time can surpass this story of hope and tragedy.

(With inputs from Sucheta Kriplani and Mansi Sharma)