The serial blasts in Mumbai left 18 people dead and over 100 injured. In this photo, policemen look for clues ar the Zaveri Bazaar blast site
At 6.54 p.m. on July 13, a bomb in a motorcycle tore into Mumbai's 150-year-old Zaveri Bazaar, killing five people instantly. As pushcarts selling food were scattered and bodies lay mutilated, Hiten, a businessman, recounted how he carried the severed head of a victim to the nearby Gokuldas Tejpal Hospital. He tried, but couldn't find the body parts.
A minute later, at 6.55 p.m., a tiffin box exploded, resounding through Prasad Chambers, Opera House, where diamond traders gather every evening to discuss the day's business. The blast, which killed nine, left trader Chirag Vora shaken. "It shattered the window panes. The diamonds on my tray were everywhere," he says.
At 7.05 p.m., yet another bomb went off, this time at Hanuman Mandir at Dadar's Kabutarkhana, where people shop for household goods. As injured people scrambled for cover amid splattered blood and damaged vehicles, Indulal Shah, who owns a sweet shop in the area, could only say: "It took just a second. Everything changed. The usual chaos became a desperate panic."