11th July 2006, this day will be indeed remembered as it goes down not only in the history of our Mumbai City but also in the lives of innumerable families that have suffered irrepairable damage & permanent scars it has left behind.
There were 7 Bomb blast that took place on the 11th July 2006 on the “Life Line” of Mumbai viz. the local trains. Hundreds of people were injured and many lost their lives.
I boarded one such train that took off from Churchgate station and arrived at Andheri Station at around 5:53 pm. For my colleague and I, things seemed normal and as usual the train was over-crowded. Just before the train arrived Mira Road Station, I got a place to sit, seeing my senior colleague standing I offered him my seat which he refused saying that he was all right.
While we were casually conversing with each other all of a sudden a loud BLAST took place in the same first class compartment which we had boarded. Within a matter of a split second, all the people who were standing and seated with me in the compartment were thrown all over the place with multiple injuries and mangled lifeless bodies filled the place.
Due to the brute force of the blast, the compartment was ripped open sending down train fixtures such as fans, tube lights/bulb fittings, switch boards, iron rods etc. An electric switch box with dangling wires, fell and rested on me sending down a high voltage electric shock that shook me violently from head to toe - that’s when I cried aloud JESUS, JESUS, JESUS that was my desperate cry for help and HE did, His presence filled the compartment ( Psalms 91: 15 says: He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.) & (Act 2 : 21 says: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of JESUS shall be saved.) and that electric box fell off by it self, Hallelujah!
When I opened my eyes and looked around, I saw people fallen all around me, one person wa
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