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7 blasts rock India trains; at least 100 dead
Explosions struck when commuter ‘trains were most crowded,’ official says
MUMBAI, India - More than 100 people were killed on Tuesday in seven bomb explosions at rail stations and on trains in India’s financial hub, Mumbai police said.

“There are 104 dead,” a police official at the city’s central control room, who gave his name as Bhavale, told Reuters by phone.

Bombay Police Chief A.N. Roy said on Indian television that as many 100 people were feared killed and more than 250 injured.

“The blasts happened when the trains were most crowded,” said D.K Shankaran, chief secretary of the state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital said.

There was chaos throughout the crowded rail network following the explosions, and authorities struggled to determine how many people had been killed and injured.

Television images showed injured victims sprawled on train tracks, frantically dialing their cell phones. Some of the injured were being carried away from the crash site.

The force of the blasts ripped doors and windows off carriages, and luggage and debris were strewn about.

Pranay Prabhakar, the spokesman for the Western Railway, confirmed that seven blasts had taken place. He said all trains had been suspended, and he appealed to the public to stay away from the city's train stations.







I am at my shop,its 9.30pm this is my last post fr the day, I have sent my staff home, specially Anil who stays at Mulund and I have asked him to commute by public bus,his mother called up after he left, the other guys stay at Bandra, Asif my eldest son is at work at Malad he works for an American conglomerate, and his company bus will drop him at home, and in times like this the entire mobile network is jammed..and we cant get through to him, but there are parents like us , and children whose parents too must be out somewhere near a station, trying to get in touch, and the less said about disaster management the better.

And Mumbai has just been lashed by rains , flooding and misery to the Mumbaikar, and once the waters and the rains abated, came the desecration of the wife of the Shiv Sena supremo Shri Balasahebs late wife Shrimati Meenatai s Statue at Shivaji Park, and life in Mumbai was crippled by a a forcibly spontaneous bandh, havoc on the streets, and in far of Bhiwandi, a suburb, a riot between the minority community and the law enforcers, and uncalled for deaths of Police personnel, and two youth from the public.

And now these sudden explosions on the bleeding heart of a suffering city, and this mayhem, and death, and the cowardly terrorism that strikes its venemous head, and my heart goes out to those who lost their lives, and those in hospitals and , and those loved ones who will be waiting with abated breath for good news.

And this is Terrorism , heinously provocative, an extreme form of unpardonnable crime , a cowardice that has No Faith , No Religion, No God ,has no value for the innocent , the unwary, the hapless commuter who is already half dead in Mumbai s wretched transport system...the train travel is a horrendous nightmare, and only the undaunted and a braveheart can undergo this pilgrimage from home to the place of work uninsured to Fatality.

And tommorow morning this greivous calamity , will become fodder for political parties, and the issue will be politicized , to get rid of the government in power, and religious war cries, and no one to shed a tear for the dead. Visits by the politicos to the hospital to see the victims, monetary compensation for the dead and the injured, and more milage in media prominence for the minestrial force, and the opposition .

And yet battered , bruised each time crippled this great city of Mumbai and its toughened people get up after each disaster , God made or Man made, and shame all collective calamity.

Dont Cry Mumbai My Beloved City.

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