BOMBAY (PTI): Forty-one people were injured, 12 of them seriously, in a powerful crude bomb explosion on a commuter train in Bombay, capital of the western Indian state of Maharashtra Oct.29. The explosion occurred in a packed compartment of a church gate bound suburban train near Matunga road station when an explosive concealed in a polythene bag in a second class bogie went off at 1354 hours (0824 GMT).
The bomb exploded as the train was gaining motion, ripping off both the legs of two passengers and the right leg of another.
The victims, all males, suffered multiple injuries mostly below the waist, including fracture to those who leapt off in panic. Others were hit by flying shrapnel’s from the explosive. Railway police suspected the bomb could have been planted at the Matunga station itself.
The injured were rushed to private hospitals,
The explosion left a crater like hole in the bogie which was taken to Bombay central for examination by forensic experts.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 5, 1993
