It all started at 1100 hours on Sunday when a live bomb was detected outside the Nupur hospital on Satellite Road. The diamond city since then had seen 21 bombs -- all defused -- being discovered.
Lallubhai Patel, a Surat Municipal Corporation worker, found a package while cleaning up Satellite Road on Saturday. He took it home, thinking that it was a cassette player, and forgot all about it.
The next morning, he saw the reports in Sunday's newspapers about the Ahmedabad blasts, got scared, and promptly threw away the parcel near the hospital from where he had picked it up.
Patel told rediff.com, "I am innocent. I thought I had found some discarded gift and took it home. I slept at home with the package. Next day, when people talked about unexploded bombs and tiffin boxes, I got scared. Since then I have been having sleepless nights. I still can't imagine how I slept with a bomb in my house."
Later, he informed the police.
Image: Modi takes a walk around the spots where the bombs were recovered.
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