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| Bombay boom injures 21... |
| 2002-12-07 |
| A blast rocked the food court in the Mumbai Central train station Friday, injuring 21 people, six of them seriously. Initially, police said the blast had occurred in a McDonald's restaurant, but McDonald's said the explosion occurred at a nearby restaurant. "Nope. Wudn't us. Y'want fries widdat?" A top Indian police official said Friday's explosion occurred in an air conditioning duct in the ceiling. He said there was no smell of explosive or of burning or charring, and added it was still too early to say what caused the blast. Normally there aren't any gas lines or anything similarly combustable running in air conditioning ducts. They're just tin. Anybody who watches action movies, though, can tell you that there's usually a good guy or a bad guy crawling through them, even though they're normally no more than about 12 inches wide... He said 15 people were given first aid at the scene but another six were taken to hospitals because of the severity of their injuries. A McDonald's spokeswoman in the United States said: "We do not believe this has anything to do with McDonald's. It did not happen on McDonald's property. It was the neighboring business, the restaurant right next door." McDonald's said none of its customers and employees were injured. Why should they be, if it didn't happen there? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 We had a HVAC unit blow up at one of our AFRTS stations, compressor overheated. It was quite spectacular, and this was a small unit. Could also have been a dust explosion. |
| Posted by: Steve 2002-12-07 11:31:37 |