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Jaipur docs call up people to give grim news
Published on Wed, May 14, 2008 at 02:43, Updated at Thu, May 15, 2008 in Nation section
Tags: Jaipur Blasts, Walled City , Jaipur
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Jaipur: Seven serial blasts rocked the city of Jaipur at 7:35 PM on Tuesday evening, killing 60 people and injuring 150 others.
Injured people were rushed to Sawai Mansingh hospital. However, it was a peculiar situation for doctors at the hospital as they used the mobile phones of the dead to communicate the unfortunate news to their family members.
According to Hospital sources, of nearly 20 bodies that were brought to the hospital, the mobile phones on three dead bodies started ringing.
The doctors, who had declared them brought dead, had to give this unfortunate news to their relatives on the mobiles phones being carried by the victims.
The blasts, which were of medium intensity, took place in the walled city area.
"According to the information I have received 60 people have died and 150 have been injured," said Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who rushed back to the state capital from Jodhpur.
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