On the evening of February 21, 2013, P. Yadaiah Goud, a marketing executive, went to collect the monitor of his PC from a repair shop located beside Dilsukhnagar bus stop. Instead he ended up with a vertebral fracture, injuries on his left thigh and left forearm. Now paralysed from the waist down and has been unemployed ever since, Goud is among the 126 survivors, out of whom 78 sustained grave injuries, in the Dilsukhnagar twin blasts of 2013. He was lucky, 18 others were killed on that day.
The two blasts, with improvised explosive devices (IEDs), within a span of six seconds at 6:58:38 p.m. and at 6:58:44 p.m. at Dilsukhnagar changed the fate of over hundred families. It resulted in the death of 18 persons, and injured 126 others. While the first blast took place at 107 bus stop in Dilsukhnagar, the second was near A1 Mirchi Centre. Both located about 100 metres apart.
Speaking to The Hindu, the survivors of the ghastly mishap recounted the horrific day and the trauma they have to live with to this day.
