Families bid final goodbye to blast victims

MUMBAI: It was a sea of white as mourners thronged crematoria and funeral homes across the city to bid a final goodbye to those who perished in Tuesday's serial bomb blasts on suburban trains in the city.
    
Several localities in suburbs like Goregaon and Borivali were home to to many of the dead, and as their families, neighbours and friends made their way to condole the bereaved, an eerie silence prevailed over normally bustling
neighbourhoods.
    
"What have they (terrorists) got by killing innocent college boys? We fail to understand their mentality," said one mourner.
    
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation lent a helping hand and announced that funeral services would be free of cost keeping in mind the scope of the tragedy that struck this teeming metropolis.

 

Most of the people who lost relatives, earlier heaved a sigh of relief as the identified bodies were handed over to relatives without hassles after completion of formalities.
    
Even as relatives were busy preparing for the last rites, rain gods also joined them in the mourning, lashing showers all during the day.