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Ahmedabad comes to terms with tragedy and pain after bombings
It is exactly a week since this city witnessed the bloody serial bombings that left 55 people dead and around 200 injured, many grievously.
- IANS
- Published: 00:09 August 3, 2008
Ahmedabad: It is exactly a week since this city witnessed the bloody serial bombings that left 55 people dead and around 200 injured, many grievously.
The city, popularly known as the Manchester of India, and its people are trying to begin life afresh - forgetting the pain of the tragedy that has united everybody.
However, the grief and sorrow of the families who have lost their loved ones will not go away easily. It will take ages before they accept the fact that they have left them forever.
Last rites
On Friday morning, the city's Vyas family went through hell. Even as they were observing the "besna" or last rites of Dushyant Vyas, 41, who was killed in a blast at the Civil Hospital, news came of the death of his little son Rohan, who was injured in the same blast. Rohan, 11, had suffered 75 per cent burns and succumbed after a long pain-filled battle. His death was announced before the already mourning group of relatives and friends gathered at the Vyas house.
Dushyant Vyas used to work as a laboratory assistant at the cancer centre of the Civil Hospital. On the ill-fated Saturday, he was passing by the trauma centre of the hospital with his two sons whom he was giving a lesson in cycling.
His other son, Yash, aged 9, is still fighting for life at the hospital.
The entire city has been mourning and talking about the Vyas family's grief. Newspapers and news channels have been reporting on the state of the children everyday for the past week. But now little Yash is the lone ray of hope for the family.
The bomb blast also snuffed out another promising life - that of a young final year student who was killed while saving others peoples' lives at the Civil Hospital.
Chandangiri Goswamy never lost a moment to be at the side of those in need, recalls B.K. Jain, his college principal. On Black Saturday, the 20-year-old rushed to the hospital to extend a helping hand to the injured after learning about the bomb blasts in the city, but lost his own life in the powerful blast near the trauma centre.
There are more such heartbreaking stories of victims of the blast, but finally life goes on in the bustling city.
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