Around 15:00, rumors about some terrific bomb blasts all around the city (Bangalore) started to grow rapidly throughout our office. It didn’t take long for the media to pick up the story and a bit later, this terrorist attack was the main topic everywhere in India. In case you missed the news, there are already dozens of articles out there, so I won’t recap everything. According to a BBC article and the Bangalore Times, there have been several low intensity bomb blasts this afternoon within only a short period of time at various crowded places in Bangalore. Luckily, I was at the Office at that time. But still, it happened very closely to our apartments where we stay here in Bangalore. The Madivala Bus Stand (where the first bomb exploded) is actually just a couples of minutes away from Saint John’s Wood (our apartment complex)! The bomb sites in the map below were created by myself based on the information in the news, so they might not be that accurate but you get an expression how close we are.
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