Click to play videoNew Delhi: Sixty-year-old Naval Kishore has been bedridden for the last one week. A street vendor by profession, Kishore saw four people collapse and die before his eyes after the bomb blast in the crowded Karol Bagh market in Delhi.
The serial blasts that ripped through the city left 18 people dead and more than 50 others injured. Now, a week later Kishore has only one appeal.
“There are so many innocent people who are dying. Someone please do something,” Kishore said.
Twenty-three-year-old Sheeraz and Kishore’s tales of horror have a common thread: pain.
Sheeraz has come all the way from Anantnag in Kashmir to check on two of his maternal uncles who were working in Ghaffar Market as rickshaw pullers.
On reaching Delhi, Sheeraz found out that one of them had died and another had suffered severe injuries. Sheeraz and his cousin Ashraf are now running from pillar to post to collect compensation money so that their injured uncle can return home.
“Everyone has got money but they keep asking me to get verification. They are asking me to get the wife of my dead uncle but she is too scared to come,” Sheeraz said.
On the other hand is Sohan Devi who has been given a cheque of Rs 15 lakh as compensation after she lost three family members to the blasts. But she is now battling another fear and she even refused to speak to CNN-IBN.
Sohan Devi's daughter, Laxmi, said, “There is no police. We are living in constant fear. Our children keep crying. We can't sleep at night and we are being threatened.”
Even as shops open up and Ghaffar market gets back to business, the sorrow and despair is evident amongst people whose lives will never be the same again. The only emotion that speaks volumes is anger and the growing intolerance against terror attacks.
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