Click to play videoKolkata: The city has had to cope with two tragedies within a span of a month and half. After the May 31 blasts in Kashmir, which killed a city resident, the five back-to-back grenade blasts that rocked Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday have left two Bengali families devastated.
Shantiranjan Dutta, who's 28-year-old son was injured in the blasts, is longing for the return of his son.
"He called us after the blasts and said he's fine. We saw him on television, his right arm is hurt. We want him to come back home soon," Dutta said.
But not everyone from Dum Dum Park in Kolkata who made the fateful trip to Srinagar was as lucky. The locked up house of Ghosh Roy's has one such sad story. Four of the five residents of this house died in the blasts. Their neighbours still can't believe that one of the most popular women of the locality Kaveri is dead.
"She was such an enthusiastic person and she was also a great social worker. She took interest in every problem that we faced in the locality and tried to solve it. We can't believe it could happen to her," Kaveri’s neighbour, Gopa Das said.
The blasts came as a shock for another Bengali family from Hyderabad. The Bhatacharjees of East Anand Bagh lost three of their family members in the Srinagar blast. 14 year-old Sushmith and 17 year-old Bubbly's parents and grandmother had gone for the Amarnath yatra. It turned out be their last journey.
"We came to know around 2 pm. We were all shattered. I was always against this tour because we have been hearing about such incidents. But they were not ready listen to me and said it is a tour to visit God. My brother joined in the last moment and at one point of time, information was that he was alive. There was hope for 10 minutes," Sandeep Bhatacharjee’s, Dilip Bhatacharjee said.
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