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Hindustan Times Pune
|July 22, 2025
That fateful Tuesday evening in 2006, Dr Aparna Deshpande, the then associate professor and head of the emergency unit at KEM Hospital, was heading home when she was called back, along with all the other doctors. Seven coordinated blasts in suburban trains had left a trail of dead and wounded, and a city reeling from tragedy.
Within an hour, the KEM hospital, closest to two of the stations where the blasts had occurred, saw its halls filled with the injured. Doctors recall the horror of dismembered bodies, severe lung damage, massive blood loss due to shrapnel piercing bodies, and severe spinal injuries leading to 18 surgeries. The tragedy claimed 188 lives, left 828 injured, and many more grieving.
This story is from the July 22, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Pune.
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