Click to play videoGuwahati: Assam was rocked by 12 high-intensity serial blasts on Thursday in which 61 people were killed and nearly 300 injured. Even though the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has denied its role in the blasts, but sources have told CNN-IBN they suspect a splinter cell of ULFA was behind the blasts.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has ordered a high-level investigating into the blasts.
The serial blasts have, however, left behind a dark scar on the face of the people.
While the injured are fighting for their lives in the hospitals, many are struggling to accept the sad truth that they have lost their near and dears ones forever.
Dulal Mondal, 62, is in Guwahati Medical College fighting for his life. Dulal thinks that his wife is also battling her burn wounds in another ward but he is unaware that she is dead.
"I'd gone to Ganeshguri with my wife. In the blast my wife fell on one side and I on another. I remember her saree was burnt. She is in the ward below," he says.
For Dulal's son, Joydeb Mondal, a 24-year-old student, the impact of the loss is yet to set in.
"I spoke to my mother. She wanted water and then saline was given. Then she died. I have not told my father," says Joydeb as he lifts the cover to see her face.
Joydeb is not the only one whose family has been torn apart because of this blast. Prabhakar Sinha, 28, came to the city with his mother to visit relatives but lost her to the blasts.
"My mother came to collect her pension. She had gone to the market. After the blast I kept looking for her, till I finally came to this hospital and found her dead," Sinha says.
Even for doctors in the hospital or ministers on their routine rounds, the blast has set fear in everyone
"Actually in the morning I was there in the casualty. I was very sad when I saw a little boy standing near his dead mother," says Dr Bhaskar of Guwahati Medical College.
"The city has a habit of fighting back, but there is some kind of panic after the Ganeshguri episode of people attacking and burning vehicles," Hemanta Biswa Sarma, Minister for Health and IT, says.
As hundreds fight for their lives and politicians pay their regular visits, it's a sad time that many would not like to look forward to.
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