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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/they-cant-scare-us-this-way/2006/07/12/1=

'They can't scare us this way'

Commuters in Mumbai returned warily to its bomb shattered train network
today as India's financial and movie capital slowly got back on its
feet.

Eight bombs tore through packed trains yesterday in an attck on the
heart of a city that embodies India's global ambitions.

Many residents overcame their fears and took trains to work this
morning.
However, there was none of the usual crush on the rail service, which
normally carries 6 million passengers a day, making it one of the
world's most crowded train networks.

In many first class cars - the target of the bombings - there were
fewer than half the usual 60 to 70 people.

"We had always thought trains were safe, but what can we do? In this
city trains are the lifeline,'' said Brijesh Ojha, 35, who boarded a
train at Bandra station, where the first blast occurred.

"They can't scare us this way,'' he said.

Police step up security

Police stepped up security as the death toll climbed to 190 people
with more than 600 wounded in the attacks.

"I urge people to remain calm, not to believe rumours, and carry on
their activity normally," Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks in the
city, formerly known as Bombay.

But suspicion fell on Muslim militants fighting New Delhi's rule in
disputed Kashmir, who have been blamed for several bomb attacks in
India in the past.

Pakistan, which denies Indian charges of tacit support for the
militants, condemned what it labelled a "terrorist attack".

World leaders express outrage

The blasts brought worldwide expressions of outrage.

"The United States stands with the people and the government of India
and condemns in the strongest terms these atrocities, which were
committed against innocent people as they went about their daily
lives," President George W Bush said.

"...no country is immune from the possibility of terrorist attacks,"
Prime Minister John Howard said in Sydney. "This terrorist attack is an
attack on the democratic way of life."

"Such acts cannot possibly be excused by any grievance," U.N.
spokeswoman Marie Okabe said in New York.

In the aftermath of the blasts, hundreds of dazed passengers walked
along railway lines and many helped pull bodies from mangled carriages
and rush the injured to hospitals as monsoon rain fell.

"I took out at least 35 dead bodies from the trains," a middle-aged man
told local TV, weeping uncontrollably. "There were people without hands
and limbs and we took them to hospital."

Commuters fled suburban rail stations in panic after the explosions and
mobile phone lines were jammed.

DK Shankaran, chief secretary of the state of Maharashtra, of which
Mumbai is the capital, said the city would bounce back.

"Every single school, college and office will remain open," he said.

But India's financial markets were expected to suffer today, with
analysts saying the attacks were likely knock foreign investor
confidence.

Network used by 6.5m a day

The blasts occurred on five trains and at two stations in Mumbai's
western suburbs, which are linked to the downtown office and business
areas mainly by an overground rail network used by some 6.5 million
people each day.

All suburban train services in the city were suspended after the blasts
but by late on Tuesday a limited service was running on the western
line, along which the attacks took place.

The first attack took place at 6.24 pm (2154 AEST last night) with the
others following in quick succession.

The Mumbai blasts came hours after suspected Islamist militants killed
seven people, six of them tourists, in grenade attacks in Indian
Kashmir's main city, Srinagar, police said, the most concerted
targeting of civilians in months.

It took just 11 minutes.

The powerful explosive devices, which police think were hidden in
luggage racks above commuter's heads, destroyed carriages, spewing
charred and twisted metal and blood spattered debris and luggage across
the rails.

As police and rescue services struggled to reach the blast scenes
through Mumbai's snarled, chaotic traffic, bystanders stepped up,
pulling the wounded from the wreckage and bundling them into every
available vehicle - from trucks to three-wheeled auto-rickshaws - for
the race to the hospitals.

Others wrapped bodies in railway blankets and carried them off the
lines as the monsoon kept up a steady downpour. Later, police collected
body parts in white plastic bags streaked with blood and rain.

Survivors were seen staggering around, clutching bloody bandages to
their heads and faces. Those who could, walked from the stations to
local hospitals.

There, they found scenes of chaos and carnage.

Doctors and volunteers wheeled in the injured and dead, one after the
other.

People around me didn't survive

"I can't hear anything. People around me didn't survive," said Shailesh
Mhate, a man in his 20s, sitting on the floor of Mumbai's Veena Desai
Hospital surrounded by bloody cotton bandages.

"I don't know how I did," he said holding his head in his hands.

Next to him a man wearing a tattered red and black striped T-shirt and
torn jeans lay unconscious, his face covered with blood.

Nearby, Param Singh lay on a bed, a blood-soaked bandage covering an
empty eye socket, his face pockmarked by shrapnel wounds. Anxiously,
the young man gave an attendant his father's telephone number. After 20
minutes they finally got through.

"I am OK, don't worry, I am safe," he said before handing the phone to
a doctor and whispering, "Don't tell him about the eye."

Search for loved ones

Others desperately searched for loved ones.

"My friend from the office was in the other compartment. I don't know
if he is injured," sobbed a woman who identified herself as Geeta, as
she ran from ward to ward.

The bombings also brought Mumbai, India's entertainment and financial
capital, to a virtual standstill.

As news spread throughout this city of 16 million people, frantic
residents tried to call family and friends. The mobile phone network
collapsed adding to the sense of panic.

With all train services suspended, thousands of people were stranded,
unable to return home and with no way to let their families know where
they were.