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Missing the train proves fatal

Staff Reporter

55-year-old Hyderabadi tax consultant gets killed in Mumbai terror attack

Photo: G. Krishnaswamy

Burdened with grief: Relatives and friends throng the house of Mumbai terror victim Laxminarayana Goel on Thursday. —

HYDERABAD: A Hyderabadi was killed in Wednesday’s terror attack in Mumbaileaving his family members distraught here.

Customs and Central Excise Tax consultant Laxminarayana Goel (55), was killed when a grenade reportedly hurled by the terrorists hit the taxi he was travelling in near Vile Parle in Mumbai.

Reports reaching here stated that the taxi split into two, hurling its parts 100 metres way and killing Goel, the driver and another unidentified passenger instantly.

Goel had left for Mumbai on Sunday on office work.

He was supposed to return to Hyderabad on Thursday by Hussainsagar Express. Abhishek Goel, the victim’s relative, told The Hindu that the consultant left for the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) station well in advance but was held up in the traffic and missed the train that left around 10 p.m. on Wednesday. Since he had no alternative arrangement, Goel started for his sister Usha’s house in a taxi.

He called and told them that he had missed the train and was coming back.

It seems a grenade hurled by terrorists hit the car when it reached Vile Parle, Mr. Abhishek Goel said.

Ms. Usha and her family members were confused and worried as Goel didn’t return home while reports about the terrorist attack the city by opening gun fire and hurling grenades spread.

They tried to reach him on his mobile phone but it got switched off by then.

The worried relatives went around different police stations before finding his body near Vile Parle.

Badly mutilated

“We’re told the explosion was so intense that Goel’s body was mutilated badly. He was identified based on the documents found beside him,” his family members said. Originally from Junjuna district in Rajasthan, Goel was the fourth among five siblings.

He and his younger brother Ram Kishan Goel settled in Hyderabad four decades ago while the other three brothers live in Nagpur. He has four daughters. Three of them got married and live in other States.

Some relatives are leaving for Mumbai to bring back his body. As the entire Mumbai police administration was busy tackling the post-attack situation, the formalities of post-mortem could not be performed on Thursday.

The body is expected to be brought to Hyderabad on Friday.

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