“I was waiting at CST that night to collect my money for the tea I had just delivered. When I heard the gunshots, I... Posted by Humans of Bombay on Thursday, 26 November 2015

It was an unforgettable night for Mumbai. The mayhem and carnage unleashed by terrorists on the financial capital on November 26, 2008, claimed more than 160 lives and left hundreds injured. Seven years have passed since the terror strikes, but those who witnessed them will never be able to forget that night.Humans of Bombay , a Facebook page that shares articles about the daily lives of Mumbaikars, has posted heartbreaking eyewitness accounts to mark the anniversary of the deadly terror strikes. One of them, a tea seller, says that was the worst day of his life. "I was waiting at CST that night to collect my money for the tea I had just delivered. When I heard the gunshots, I thought they were fireworks but then there were two or three explosions and I knew... I ran towards people shouting 'bhago, bomb hein' - people left everything behind and ran towards the road," he says in a Facebook post."Through the window I saw Kasab, and thought it was a commando with 2 AK47 guns in his hand. I frantically called out to him for help, but when he saw me he hurled such abuses that I can't even repeat them... and then fired rounds of bullets inside the ticketing counter. The Railway Master was hit, I was injured because of the glass pieces and there were seven-eight other men injured," he recalls.Describing the scene at the station, he says there were countless bodies - some dead, a few with some life still in them. "I called my wife at that point and told her that I might die... I took the Railway Master and a few others to a hospital in Byculla myself, because there were rumours that hospitals in South Bombay like Cama were also under attack. I stayed at CST the whole night with one other police officer," the post says.The tea seller says he did not help people for any award or recognition, but was promised a railway job which he still hasn't got. "If it was the son of a minister or politician who had done the same thing, God knows how much they would have done for him, but at the end of it I'm a poor chai wallah and I have no regrets...I would do it all over again," the man says.