Mumbai, July 11 (IANS) Jaishree Panickar could not believe what she saw on TV when she reached home. The suburban train that she had got off 15 minutes earlier had been ripped apart by a bomb blast - one of seven that targeted the rail network in India's financial capital Tuesday.

"I had taken the train from Churchgate. I am not able to come to terms with it," Panickar, a railway employee, told IANS.

"It was crowded as usual, but we in the ladies' compartment were much better of than the men. The compartment where the blast occurred was the one just after ours," a visibly shaken Panickar said.

For thousands of others like her, those travelling by train Tuesday at the time of the blasts and who survived, the moment will forever live in their memory.

For long will images of bodies, body parts and blood strewn over the tracks, as also the mangled remains of the bogies ripped apart by the blasts continue to haunt them - particularly as they will have to travel these very tracks twice a day to and from work.

The initial shock and confusion was followed by fear and terror as the shaken commuters came to terms with the event.

Dismembered bodies of the victims could be seen scattered around the seven blast spots - many had died when they jumped out of the running train following the blasts.

What added to the chaos was the almost immediate failure of the mobile phone services, which the police had jammed to restrict any outgoing calls being made by the alleged perpetrators of the blasts.

"I have been trying to call my son who was to return from Santa Cruz. He had gone there for his weekly guitar classes. We really do not know what to do," said Arvind Narayan, a bank employee and a resident of Thane.

As TV news channels broadcast scenes of confusion and chaos, relatives and friends went on overdrive to telephone their loved ones to enquire about their well being.

Heart-wrenching scenes were witnessed at the hospitals where the victims were taken as doctors and support staff struggled to cope with the sudden influx of patients - most of them requiring immediate attention.

"They are just coming in by the dozen," said a doctor at the Cooper Hospital.