Pune, Feb 14 (Inditop.com) A leading private hospital which received the first victims of the bomb attack thanked the people of Pune Sunday for rushing to donate blood to the badly injured.
The Inlaks Budhrani Hospital expressed its gratitude to the people for coming to the aid of the injured and to the police force for maintaining law and order at a difficult time.
The hospital is located barely one kilometre from the German Bakery where a powerful bomb concealed in a backpack exploded Saturday evening, destroying the eatery popular with foreigners and young Indians.
The hospital said in a statement that it began getting badly burnt and injured victims within 10 minutes.
Simultaneously, it alerted all its senior surgeons, who rushed to the hospital. Nurses and students of nursing living in the hospital premises also poured into the casualty and general wards.
It said two people were brought dead while a third person succumbed to injuries soon after admission.
The hospital expressed regret that despite its best efforts, it could not save the lower limbs of three who were badly injured.
It said the dead and injured were mostly in the age group of 20 to 30 and had burns, shrapnel injuries and multiple fractures.
