AHMEDABAD: Thirty three persons were injured, six seriously, when a crude bomb exploded at the Surat railway station April 22, a few hours before the BJP tried to defy a ban on its protest rally. The blast occurred near the RMS office on Platform No.1.
Among the injured were passengers of the Gujarat Express which had just come in from Bombay. The bomb was rolled down a Staircase of the footbridge of the station, by miscreants. Most of the injuries were caused by flying splinters and iron balls the device contained,
Platform No.1 was cordoned off immediately for firemen to rescue the injured, who were taken to the Municipal and New Civil hospitals, Forensic experts reached the Spot for investigations,
The “diamond city” has witnessed the worst ever communal damage in December following the Ayodhya development. There had been a mass exodus of non-Gujarat workers from the city.
This had threatened the very existence of trade and industry in the city, however, the city limped back to normality soon,
Security has been tightened at vulnerable areas of the city.
The explosion at the Pune rail way station Wednesday which claimed six lives and injured 3 has baffled military experts and police,
The explosion occurred when 23 boxes, out of a total of 58 metallic cases, each containing 12.800 caps, were off loaded from the brake of the 1022up Manmad Pune passenger train on platform number two.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 30, 1993
