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7/11 Mumbai train blasts victim dies after being in coma for nine years

| | Jul 07, 2015, at 07:01 pm
Mumbai, Jul 7 (IBNS) Nine years after the 2006 Mumbai blasts a man, injured in the incident, has died in a local hospital.

The 36-year-old man had been in coma for all these years. 

Parag Sawant, who was in a vegetative state for the last nine years, died on Tuesday, reports quoted his family as saying. 

 Sawant was in the Churchgate-Virar train when a bomb went off near Mira Road. He suffered extensive brain trauma. 
He was admitted to the Bhaktivedanta Hospital at Mira Road and later shifted to Hinduja Hospital.

188 people were killed and 817 others injured on July 11, 2006 when seven RDX bombs kept in the first class coaches of suburban trains had exploded. 

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