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Need for a memorial to remember the victims

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The family used to enjoy chat and other savouries whenever they went out.

Not anymore.

Having escaped death by a whisker last year, Surendra and his two daughters can not relish chat. The middle-aged man and his two daughters had their chat in Gokul Chat bhandar and barely moved about 100 yards towards the bus stop on August 25, 2007 when the bomb went off.

Narrow escape

“We heard the deafening blast. I thought it was a transformer blast. There was lot of commotion. People running helter and skelter. I took the bus to my home in Hayatnagar and my heart nearly stopped when I saw the TV footage. We escaped death by hardly five minutes,” Surendra shudders to recall.

Ever since, the family had given up eating chat.

Surendra is a troubled man nowadays. He can not get rid of the indelible impressions of the blasts.

“So many people died. It was too cruel,” he shakes his head in disbelief.

All he wants now is that there should be a proper place identified for the victims, so that people could pay homage to the blast victims.

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