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Ahmedabad blast toll now 55 as 4 more die
With four injured people, including two children, succumbing to their wounds the death toll in the Ahmedabad serial bombings has reached 55.
- IANS
- Published: 00:04 August 2, 2008
Ahmedabad: With four injured people, including two children, succumbing to their wounds the death toll in the Ahmedabad serial bombings has reached 55.
The Civil Hospital announced two more dead - Ishwar Chavda, 38, and Bhavesh Kabira, 20.
Earlier, two boys had died in the V.S. Hospital and Civil Hospital. Mohammad Idris, 6, who was admitted along with his mother Sukrabanu last Saturday, died Thursday with some of the splinters still lodged in his brain. Sukrabanu is recovering and is said to be out of danger.
Rohan Vyas, 12, died Thursday at the Civil Hospital of the severe burns that he had suffered in the blast that fateful day. His father, Dushyantbhai, was killed on the spot while his younger brother Yash, 9, suffered 70 per cent burns and is battling for life.
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