Posted on 10/29/2005 10:14:28 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick
NEW DELHI: Four persons were injured in an explosion that took place near a DTC bus, in the third of the serial blasts that rocked the city at 5.45 pm on Saturday, near Kalkaji bus depot.
Unconfirmed reports said that a man wearing a red shirt got off at Lal Chowk, leaving a white bag in the bus. The bus staff suspected it to be a bomb and when they opened the bag, they found wires in it.
After parking the bus at an isolated spot, the driver was about to throw the bag out of the bus when it exploded. In the process, the bus conductor and the driver were critically injured.
"It was a miraculous escape for us," said Afzal, one of the bus passengers who was hit by glass shards of the bus while alighting from it.
"There was a cloud of smoke and the driver and the conductor were lying on the ground with injuries," he said. The bus plying on the Outer Mudrika route was heading for Sangam Vihar from Kalkaji Temple and was carrying about 30 passengers when the bomb was detected.
"One of the passengers noticed a white bag lying unclaimed near the driver's seat. When no one came forward to claim it, the driver, fearing it to be a bomb, parked the bus in a relatively isolated place and ordered everyone to get out of the bus," said Narender, another passenger.
"I heard an explosion. Before I could realise what had happened, everybody started running," said Bhavesh Bhushan, security guard of Hi-tech Vocational Centre. "Window panes of our institute were broken due to the explosion," said Bhushan.
"It was like mad rush and there was just a cloud of smoke," said Ramesh, a witness who was returning home after the day's work at a factory. "Initially, everyone thought it was a tyre burst but when we got closer to the spot, we realised it was much more serious," he said.
That's good to hear. At least some people were saved.
Don't tell Prince Charles... according to him, we "Westereners" are being too harsh and misunderstanding of the RoP, Islam....
I'm sure this, like similar bombings, is a direct result of fundamentalist Muslim outrage over peaceful actions between India and Pakistan in light of the lat serious earthquake in that region.
Whenever any Muslim government enters into promising relationships with a non-Islamic statements, these fiends come crawling out of the woodwork to maim and kill inncoent people - generally but not always the non-Muslims.
This is merely yet another in a long and growing series of events which demostrates the esential cult nature of that belief system and its incopatibility with any form of civlized governmnet or society.
The reports from the Palestinians show that the Arabs have killed more of each other than the IDF has, and the reports from Iraq show that the Muzzi's have killed 26,000 Iraq Muzzi's so far.
Islam is very indescriminate with who it kills. The object is killing, not politics or military goals it seems.
I hate them.
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