Mumbai blasts: City limps back to normalcy

Mumbai, Jul 12: A day after one of the deadliest attacks since 1993 in which terrorists struck on Mumbai's suburban Western railways, India's financial capital is slowly limping back to normalcy, displaying its humane and professional face.

Schools, colleges and offices will open today in the ''city that never sleeps'' and the Mumbaikars who came out on the streets to lend a helping hand to the distressed people affected by the bomb blasts last evening, were on their feet this morning to catch local trains from distant suburbs to come to work in the city.

Services on the Central and Harbour line were running normal yesterday.

Many of them living on the Western line who stayed back in their offices because of suspension of suburban train services geared up to face another day at work.

The stranded people especially women, spent the night in the municipal schools which were kept open throughout the night.

The suburban railway network carries more than six million commuters a day from suburbs to the city. Police have put the toll so far at 172. As many as 561 persons who are injured are being treated in different city hospitals.

Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has convened an all-party meeting today to discuss measures to tackle the law and order and security situation arising out of the bomb blasts.

UNI

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