As Mumbai was rocked with the serial bomb blasts, people of Mumbai were shocked. Mumbai locals carry 6.5 million people every day. The evening time causes extreme rush because everybody needs to go home as soon as possible. All of this was in the scene on July 11.
And it took only 11 minutes for the seven blasts. People were shocked. After one day they get back to normal life and shared their experience of the incidents. Here are some of the horrible reaction of some of mumbaikers.
Mohammed Qureshi
It was a normal evening and I was standing talking to a friend when suddenly there was an explosion so powerful I felt the earth move. There was black smoke everywhere.
When I reached the tracks, I saw bodies everywhere. In the train too bodies were piled up. We removed the dead bodies and covered them with a bed sheet, saree or whatever we could find.
Ramona Wazz
It was really very unsettling and upsetting because that’s the train I take every day and I missed it by a few minutes. I could have been on that train.
I’ve come back to work today and I travelled by train but I am quite unnerved by the blasts. I still feel it’s not over yet and it can happen again anytime because there’s no security on the trains and there’s kind of tension in the city that can be felt and everybody is still very upset about it.
Vijay Mistri
When the explosion took place, I was on the platform. Some friends got on the train to Borivili, which moved away from the platform. Then suddenly there was a big explosion and the roof of the compartment just went off.
My friends who were in the compartment, one lost his leg while the other lost his life. I was standing at the station but the impact was such that I was thrown off my feet and injured my hand and leg.
Adam John Fernandes
It was my day off and I was at home when I first heard the news of the blasts. My immediate reaction was to try and reach Bandra where an explosion had taken place but there was a traffic jam so I rushed to Santacruz where another explosion had taken place. I helped move wounded people from the site to nearby hospitals and generally tried to bring some order in the otherwise chaotic situation.
Nandha Kumar
Usually when we travel by train fellow commuters greet each other but today, nothing. Today every one is checking under the benches and the overhead luggage compartments for suspicious looking unclaimed bags.
Definitely the blasts have affected our minds and we are now more suspicious of things than we used to be. It is the same with everybody, I think.
Mohammed Tanveer
I was travelling from Dadar to Jogeshwari and got off at Jogeshwari and the train just started to pull out of the station when the explosion took place. I got badly hurt on my leg and I fell down and lost consciousness.
When I came to, there were people all around helping me and some of them put me in an auto [motorised] rickshaw and took me to a hospital closer to the station. I feel better today. I can’t stop travelling by train because my work requires it, there’s no other option.
