7 bomb blasts:Mumbai on Red Alert

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Seven blasts rocked suburban trains in Mumbai on Tuesday evening, Police Commissioner A N Roy has announced. Police control has reported 63 passengers have been killed in the blasts, and 400 injured.

The railway police, however, have said there were four blasts on along the Western Railway, while the state police said there were five blasts.

Reports of bomb blasts have come in from between Mahim-Matunga in north-central Mumbai, Khar, Jogeshwari (both in north-west Mumbai), Borivali (north Mumbai) and Mira Road (in Mumbai north, in Thane district), at a time when the suburban commuter traffic was its heaviest. The first blast was said to have taken place at 6.25 pm at Khar.

Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf, who was at Mahim railway station soon after reports of the blast came in, said he could see one train compartment was completely blown up in the explosion, and people were carrying bodies away. Commuters said an explosion went off in the men's first class compartment on a Western Railway local, which left Churgate station in South Mumbai at 1754, as it was leaving Mahim station on track 3 at around 1820 hours.

A file brigade official who came on the scene later said he believes that more than 25 injured were removed from the bombed out compartment.

Advocate Chandrakant Dalvi, who was travelling to his home in Dahisar by this compartment, was sitting on the tracks in a daze when rediff.com's reporters met him. He said he could not hear anything in his left ear. He had already got in touch with his relatives to say he was safe, but he had not told them that he was on the train. The fire brigade personnel were sending him to the nearest hospital for a check-up. He said he would take a cab and go home.

Around the tracks seat-cushioning material was lying around, among chappals and shoes and bags. Luggage removed from the compartment was lying on the other side.

Outside the station the road had been cordoned off and two fire engines were posted. But onlookers could view the wreckage from the footbridge and the road.

Two local trains were halted on either side of the bombed train and there was a rush of people leaving the station who were hitching rides home with lorries and tempos.

TV channel CNN-IBN was reporting that atleast 15 people were killed in the Matunga/Mahim blast.

The Western Railway has suspended its suburban services soon after the blasts. Local telephone lines were jammed as panic-stricken commuters called their near and dear ones to alert them of the blasts. Commuters said there was no sign of the police even 30 minutes after the blasts.

A PTI reporter at Santa Cruz station said a blast rocked a Borivali-bound local at 1824 hours, and seven to eight injured commuters jumped out of the speeding train in panic. Around 12 to 15 people who were injured were taken to the nearby V N Desai hospital and the entire first class bogey had been emptied.

Another 20 injured commuters were admitted to KEM hospital in Parel in Central Mumbai, hospital sources said.

The police have cordoned off all railway stations on the Western line and strict frisking and checking was being carried out at the Central and Harbour sections of local train services.


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Posted: 19 years ago
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i just chequed the online newspaper and it saya that 135 were killed! 😭 I just hope everyone that we know are safe! Praying to God! 😭 😭
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I just hope that everyone is safe and fine. Those who lost their lives - may their soul rest in peace.
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😭 I pray that everything turns out fine. To have my morning start out like this is very sad. Hope all are well.
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Hoping and praying everyone is fine 😭 😭 Such a sad news. What does any one get of the killings ?
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I hope every one get weel soon. What is happening in India. First Delhi Blast, them Mumbai Flood and now blast again. Please Lord, help my country.
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What is gained by killing innocent people?? 😭

This is such saddening news. please, may all of us pray for those killed or injured, and for their near and ear ones. 😭
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Awe yes! I did hear it in on abc7 this morning 😭 I hope its all going good back in Mumbai 😊 😭
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Well, People in Mumbai pls confirm ur safety

Myself and ChatterBox(meena) are safe

Life begins again at mumbai
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😭 😭 😭 it is terror, horror, 😭 it is easy for all to say mumbai is back on its feet, what do common man do -he has to keep going to work, inspite of fear ,and ask those who have lost their dear ones, or are still searching for those missing

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