Twin Blasts at Chennai Central Railway Station Thursday May 01,2014

Chennai on Thursday May 01,2014 woke up to twin blasts at the Central Railway Station that left a 24-year-old woman techie dead and 14 others injured.

TCS employee Swathi Paruchuri, who was killed in the twin blasts, was on her way home to Guntur for the first time after joining TCS Bangalore earlier this year. 

"We are shattered. She was about to get married in a couple of months. She was everything to us," said Rajalakshmi, Swathi's grandmother.

TCS too, through a statement, said it was "shocked and saddened" by her death.

 TN Social Welfare Minister B Valarmathi pays homage to Swathi

The two low-intensity bombs went off in quick succession in S4 and S5 coaches of the Bangalore-Guwahati Express about 10 minutes after it chugged into platform number nine at 7.05am.

Platform No 9 was cordoned off by the Police after the blast

 

Karnataka DIG Railways, B. Srikantappa said the trains are thoroughly checked at their origin station, and the explosive could have been planted en route. The train was, in fact, late by over an hour when it reached Chennai.

 

All the political parties in the state - including PMK, MDMK, DMDK and the Congress - have condemned the blasts and criticised the police for being inactive in preventing Thursday's tragedy.