Delhi blast: A horror retold
Wednesday September 07, 2011 02:44:37 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Blood
splattered on the street, tatters of what were till a few minutes
ago litigants' papers, deafening wails, disfigured men raising
hysterical screams -- what was a regular bustling weekday morning
turned into a nightmare when a bomb went off outside Gate No.5 of
the Delhi High Court.
Horror-struck lawyers, journalists, litigants and locals ran in
all directions, stumbling into victims, bags and what looked like
their remains, lying on the road.
It was only after the heavy smoke triggered by the "terrible
explosion" withered away did they come to terms with the
monstrosity of the act.
Hysteria, panic and dread followed. Some burst into tears, some
were too stunned to cry. Some picked themselves together, some
didn't have the limbs to move.
The fact that it was a terror attack sunk in, sending a chill down
people's spine. Flashbacks of 26/11, the recent Mumbai attacks
played in the minds. People nervously repeated prayers in their
minds. It was the second bombing attempt outside Delhi High Court
in four months. Only this time, it was just not an attempt. It was
the 19th terror attack in the capital in the last 15 years.
If terror has a colour, it was there, splashed in red on clothes,
road, and wherever the intensity of the blast took it.
Soon, ambulances, police jeeps and OB vans started flocking the
venue. People, half-alive, severed, were stuffed into vans to be
taken to hospitals. Police cordoned off the area and the
journalists went onto cover the biggest news of the week -- which
will soon turn into a brief 7/9.
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