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In 34 yrs, I have never washed so much blood
Updated On: 26 November, 2009 08:33 AM IST | | Somita Pal
For 5 hours, 15 women safai karmacharis of the Central Railway washed, scrubbed and, thereby, did something they had never been trained for. Cleaning bloodstains and body parts from the platforms of CST.
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CST cleaners washed away the remains of the 58 dead with grit and determination
For 5 hours, 15 women safai karmacharis of the Central Railway washed, scrubbed and, thereby, did something they had never been trained for. Cleaning bloodstains and body parts from the platforms of CST.
They did it quietly, without complaint and with so much resilience that when the sun rose on November 27, 2008, little remained of the massacre of 58 innocents.
"I worked in the railways for 34 years, and I have never cleaned so much blood," said Sushila Sharma (55), one of the cleaners.
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She added that it wasn't just blood, they had to clean up body parts, brain, and other unidentifiable, equally gruesome things.
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