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7 blasts rock Mumbai; 183 dead, 714 hurt
Published on Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 18:30, Updated at Thu, May 15, 2008 in Nation section
Tags: 7/11, Mumbai Blasts , New Delhi
TERROR TUESDAY: More than 174 people are feared dead and over 400 injured in 7 blasts.
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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.
About 183 people are feared killed and over 714 people injured in the serial blasts.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh announced Rs 1 lakh compensation to the families of the dead.
Mumbai Helpline Number: 022-22005388
Western Railway helpline numbers: STD Code:022 - 23004000, 23014373
The available hospital-wise break up of the dead was as follows:
- Borivali: Bhagwati hospital 24 dead (23 male and one female).
- 38 dead at Sion hospital.
- Nine dead at Santa Cruz hospital.
- Parel, south-central Mumbai: 18 dead at KEM hospital.
- Vile Parle: 26 dead at Cooper hospital.
- Bandra: 22 dead at Bhabha hospital.
After spot check of the tracks, Western line Railways restored train services in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
All seven blasts 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 evidence.
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