Tragedy in Mumbai
Mumbai, India was rocked by a series of explosions on their commuter rail system today. The explosions were apparently timed to kill as many people as possible and the reported numbers of killed and wounded keep rising. Our thoughts go out to our friends at Metroblogging Mumbai. They are reporting local news and aid information as it becomes available. Metblogger Selma writes:
There are injured and dead people lying on the tracks. No police in the picture, no fire brigades. Its the local people, the shopkeepers and the people wo live close to the house who are coming into help. Carrying bodies both alive and dead in bedhseets. Some tiny bundles, perhaps with limbs within, or maybe children.
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Whom were you trying to target? The working class men who struggle for an inch of space in local trains? The working women who knit and cut vegetables in trains on their way home? Young, dreamy students discussing exams and love? The babies accompanying their mothers, smiling back at the women around them?
Darkness is fast falling. Its raining like it will not stop. Will the rains wash away the blood? Will tomorrow be a new day. Here’s to lost lifes and broken dreams.
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If you want to share your sympathies, MB Mumbai has a thread for it. No word on where to make contributions that I’ve been able to find, but I’ll see if anything like that develops.
this is so awful. thank you for posting on this.