Recounting the terror, another passenger, Abdul Rashid Sheikh, said, "I was sitting on the upper deck of the bus when I heard some screams. I saw this man (Raj) trying to strangle the conductor with some kind of a chain and then he let him go. After that he shot one of the passengers for no reason."
"All of us ducked down under the seat and we were very scared since we didn't know if the police was to start firing," Sheikh, an employee with a local bank and a resident of suburban Andheri, who was travelling with his wife Rafia, said.
"There were nearly 15 passengers on the upper deck of the bus. He first tried to take my wife out but then apologised to her, seeing she was woman, and said that he (Raj) would escort her out of the bus," Sheikh said.
"I refused to let her (Rafia) go since I was scared that she could be hit in any crossfire that might take place," the bank employee, who was taking his wife to visit a doctor, said.
"We then heard some sounds of shooting and later heard that he (Raj) was dead," Sheikh added.
Image: A cop disembarks the double-decker bus.
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