Blast victims' relatives hold up Patil's motorcade
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil was virtually gheraoed outside Safdarjung Hospital by enraged relatives of the passengers injured in the blast.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil was on Monday virtually gheraoed outside Safdarjung Hospital by enraged relatives of the passengers injured in the blast on the trans-border Samjhauta Express near Panipat.
The agitated relatives of the injured passengers held up his motorcade as the minister was leaving after visiting those injured who have been admitted to the hospital. They appealed to Patil that they should be allowed to meet their dear ones who were in the burns ward of the hospital after being brought from Panipat.
Hospital authorities were not allowing the relatives inside the burns ward, which usually has very restricted entry owing to the highly infectious nature of burn injuries. There was tight security outside the burns ward, with 50 BSF personnel being deployed besides Delhi Police.
Patil said the best medical treatment will be provided to all victims of the blasts. Eleven of the injured passengers, including five Pakistanis, have been admitted in the hospital. They have sustained 10-45 per cent burns.
"We will provide the best medical treatment to all the victims of the blast. The government will also provide all kinds of help to the relatives of the blast victims," he said.
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Condemning the blasts that took place on the train in Deewana, Haryana, he said the perpetrators of the explosions did not want India to have a good relationship with its neighbour Pakistan. "It is a ghastly act... They want to disrupt the ongoing peace process," Patil told reporters after visiting the hospital.On the probe into the explosions, he said the identity of the perpetrators of the attack would be known very soon. He said the explosions were not very loud, indicating that they were low-intensity blasts. Home Secretary V K Duggal accompanied Patil to the hospital.
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