Doctor’s blog

On evening of 1^st October 2008 terrorists had struck the city where I live. It was around 7.30 PM on 1^st October and I was surfing the internet like any other day when I heard a loud sound. I did not bother much because it was a festive season and also wedding season, when lots of fire crackers are used to celebrate weddings. But it was a bomb blast planted by terrorists to create panic; the next day was holy festival of Muslims (Id) and also birth day of our father of nation the Mahatma Gandhi.

Unconfirmed reports say the number of death at three and injured people at 120. but the official reports say that there was no death and injured persons were about 100.

I had no idea what has happened till my sister in law rang me up to enquire about our well being and if we were out of house. The place where the bomb exploded was only half kilometer from my house. There were few more (about three) explosions in the other parts of the city. After the explosions the administration jammed all the mobile line it seems to stop spread of panic.

The explosion near my house was in a busy market area near a temple in a laundry shop run by a lady. The rumor is that, two young people came to that laundry shop and left a shopping bag telling the lady that they will come and take that shopping bag after finishing their shopping. The lady kept the bag in good faith and it exploded after some time injuring the lady seriously. The lady lost both her legs and is at present in ICU (intensive care unit) battling for life. She is now in coma and may not come back from coma.

The police are still clueless about the blasts. Central Govt. also sent team of forensic experts with a team of nation security guards. They are slowly trying to join a few threads together to find out the culprits.

The city is very peaceful and nobody expected it to be target of terrorists. But now one can say for sure that no place in the world is safe from terrorists. The life of the people of this has changed forever.