Happy to be alive, break the news: Journalist on brush with terror

A PTI reporter today had a close shave with death in the Delhi High Court when a suitcase bomb ripped through a reception counter killing 11 persons and injuring over 76 others.

Less than a minute after he collected his entry pass from the reception counter, Upmanyu Trivedi, legal reporter, was moving towards the court building when he heard a deafening sound at 10.14am and looked back shocked.

But he gathered his wits quickly and made a call to the office to break the news that turned out to be a devastating terror attack.

"It was a strange kind of emotions. Happy to have survived and broken the news but deeply disturbed to see the gory blast site with scores of people lying in a pool of blood, right in front of the reception counter from where I had got my entry pass seconds ago," Trivedi said later.

Within seconds of the blast, the lawyers, security personnel and litigants present at the site swung into action to help the victims.