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...then on July 26, the skies burst. A meter of monsoon rain fell on Saki Naka in 24 hours, causing the 30-m cliff behind the Afzad family home to collapse. Around 25 shacks perched on top of the precipice fell onto another 25 nestled below, according to Bombay Joint Chief Fire Officer G.S. Sawant. The landslide killed 150 people, including Afzad's parents, three teenage sisters and his 12-year-old brother...
...Number of men arrested for spreading postdeluge rumors of a tsunami, landslides and a burst dam; the last scare set off a deadly stampede...
...then on July 26, the skies burst. A meter of monsoon rain fell on Saki Naka in 24 hours. Under the weight, the 30-meter cliff behind the Afzad family home collapsed. The approximately 25 shacks that had perched on top of the cliff fell onto another 25, which, like the Afzad's, were nestled below, according to Bombay Joint Chief Fire Officer G.S. Sawant. The landslide killed 150 people, including Afzad's parents, three teenage sisters, and his 12-year-old brother...
...ground, half a mile from where the bomb dropped, Michiko Yamaoka, then a 15-year-old student, saw the same flash. Today she describes it as like a burst of light from an unearthly photo shoot, big enough to cover the sky, "blue-yellow and very beautiful." Yamaoka was blown off her feet. When she came to, she had burns all over her body, and, she says, she could "hear people calling out for help and the crackle of fire coming from burning houses ... people moaning from pain, with eyes popped out and intestines coming out of their stomachs...
...Riders started to make their way out of the subway car, and ran into the car ahead of them. Abena Adofo, 23, said she was daydreaming when the door of her car burst open and up to 20 people ran in. People pushed their way to the other side of the train in confusion and someone pulled the passenger alarm. "I was shaky and scared," she said, "but like everyone else, I was trying to get out." According to Adofo, an IT trainer who was heading back home to East London when the incident occurred, even though there was panic...