Chennai:
Just when 22-year-old techie Swathi thought she was settling down in life, cruel blasts on the Bangalore-Guwahati train ended her life, just two months before she was to get married.
On May 1, Swathi, an engineering graduate from a college in Hyderabad, who was employed in a leading software firm (TCS) in Bangalore only four months ago, was returning home to Guntur in Andhra Pradesh with a friend when the blasts hit the train at Chennai central railway station.
She had boarded the train at Bangalore to head for home.
In Guntur, the news of Swathi's death rocked the town. Her parents and relatives were shocked.
"She was to come home today. But now only her body is coming", Swathi's inconsolable grandmother Rajalakshmi said.
"She was to marry in another two months," Rajalakshmi pointed out.
The first blast is said to have occurred below her seat, killing Swathi instantaneously.
Fourteen others sustained injuries in the bomb blasts as it arrived at the Chennai Central Railway station.
