India, Nov. 12 -- Ram Pratap lay on a hospital bed in LNJP Hospital, his right arm tightly bandaged, recalled the deafening blast that shattered an ordinary evening near Delhi's Red Fort.
"There was blood everywhere. We saw death up close," he said. Pratap, who runs a small roadside eatery near the fort, was about to close for the day when the explosion ripped through the area. Speaking from his hospital bed, he described how calm turned into chaos in a matter of seconds.
The roadside eatery owner from Bihar was among those who survived the explosion that killed 12 people and left the area surrounded in smoke and screams.
"It was just another evening. A few customers were waiting when suddenly there was a loud blast. The noise was so str...