Click to play videoMumbai: Even as Mumbai bounced back after the blasts, the families of those who died are struggling to come to terms with the loss.
One of the victims on that fateful day was a former national level hockey player Sandford DeSales.
Sanford's mother Marie DeSales is inconsolable. She was on her way to board a flight to Canada when a phone call changed her life forever.
Her 40-year-old son and former national hockey player Sanford DeSales was killed in the serial bomb blasts that rocked Mumbai on July 11.
"On Monday night they came to leave us at the airport as we were going to Canada. He was teasing me and said that you are lucky as you are going so far. So I told him don't worry as you will also go when your turn comes," Marie DeSales says.
"He was man who never lost his temper. Everybody loved him," his father says.
All that was left of Sanford was a badly mutilated body in the morgue at KEM hospital.
But the pain of his loss becomes worse when his family thinks of the treatment they got.
"We did not get any help from the hospital. They would not let us inside and see the patients. We knew that most of the names written there were wrong. Nobody told us that there were two morgues in KEM. It was only at about 1630 hrs IST in the evening when some people went inside with photographs that we managed to locate him. He was all alone in the morgue," his brother, trying hard to control his emotions, says.
The pain and grief in the DeSales household is all too obvious but his widow Janet is remarkably poised when asked what she thinks of those responsible for the blasts.
"Whoever has done this has to be heartless. God has told us to forgive people so I forgive them. God has said that revenge is his so he will take his revenge," she adds.
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