Passengers rush out of train in panic

People crowd at a railway station to get the glimpse of a passenger train in which two explosions occurred in Chennai May 1, 2014. Two explosions ripped through a passenger train in Chennai on Thursday, killing a 22 year-old female passenger, officials said. The blasts occurred in two coaches just as the train was approaching the city's central station. A total of nine people were injured, two of them seriously, in addition to the dead passenger. REUTERS

 It was chaos all around at the Chennai Central Railway Station as passengers ran out of the Guwahati-Bangalore Express in panic soon after the two bombs went off in the coaches of the train.

A passenger, who was travelling by the S3 coach, narrating his experience, said, "I was awake and resting on my berth. At about 7.15 AM, we heard some sound from the next coach. I came out of the coach and saw what had happened in S4 and S5 coaches".
Most passengers, who were panic-stricken, also rushed out, he said. "We saw three to four injured persons writhing in pain."

"Initially we thought it was the sound of a cylinder explosion. But we later learnt that it was bomb explosion", the passenger said.

One passenger was killed and eleven others injured in two bomb blasts that went off in quick succession on the train bound for Guwahati.

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