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Experts to study pattern of blasts

Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta yesterday said an expert team had been sent to the city to study the pattern of bomb explosions.

  • IANS
  • Published: 23:24 July 26, 2008
  • Gulf News

New Delhi and Ahmedabad: Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta yesterday said an expert team had been sent to the city to study the pattern of bomb explosions.

"We have already sent one expert team to asses the blast situation in Gujarat and one more team is going early tomorrow," Gupta said.

"We have been touch with the director general of police [Gujarat] and are coordinating with state government authorities on all concerned matters."

"We have given orders to our officers to provide whatever the state government requires from us," Gupta added.

"Not particularly to Ahmedabad, but we have sent alerts and advisories to all states three to four days back," Gupta said of home ministry's alert. It took a while for people on an evening stroll in neighbourhoods in the eastern parts of Ahmedabad to realise what was happening as the series of bomb blasts went off yesterday evening.

"At first I only heard an explosion. I did not know what was happening. Suddenly there was chaos all around. Nobody could understand," recalled a horrified Balakrisha Mehta. Mehta, a software professional, was returning home in the Maninagar area, where the first blast occurred at 6.45pm.

"Then we saw several bicycles reduced to twisted metal and realised it was possibly a terror attack," he added.

"Soon, we joined efforts to rescue the injured and rushing them to the hospital," Mehta said.

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