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Mumbaikars form human chain to protest blasts
Saturday July 16, 2011 08:56:57 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Several
hundred Mumbaikars expressed their anger at Wednesday's triple
blasts by forming a human chain from Zaveri Bazar to the Opera
House in south Mumbai, two of the three targeted sites, here
Saturday evening.
The protesters, mainly local businessmen, residents and employees
working in the gold and diamond jewellery establishments, were
also accompanied by many children, youths and women, who trooped
out to express their outrage.
Many of the participants in the four-km-long human chain said that
it was high time the government thought of the security of the
common people instead of just bigwigs and VIPs.
College students said that they were fed up of politics and they
wanted peace in the country, but such recurring terror attacks are
not good for the nation's progress.
The participants carried posters and placards with handwritten
slogans expressing their disgust at terror attacks and condemning
terrorists.
They also paid homage to the victims who perished in the triple
blasts Wednesday evening at Opera House, Zaveri Bazar and Dadar
Kabutarkhana. While 19 people have died so far, another 129
injured are undergoing treatment at various city hospitals.
Zaveri Bazar, a gold hub which has been targeted for the third
time in the past 18 years, and the diamond hub of Opera House,
together account for nearly Rs.10 billion turnover per day.
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