'Had my mother not called...': Man who shared first Bengaluru cafe blast video

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"I had just taken my order when my mother called, and I moved 1015 metres from the food counter..

Recounting the horror, Kumar Alankrit, a software engineer hailing from Bihar's Patna, who shared the first video of the blast at the cafe, said he had never encountered a situation like this before...

Alankrit, who had gone to have lunch at the Whitefield branch of Rameshwaram Cafe, returned home shaken from the incident that left nine people injured...

Since it was too noisy inside the cafe, I went to the outdoor sitting area and was talking to my mother when suddenly I heard a loud bang from behind," he said.. Alankrit said it was a near-stampede-like situation as a huge crowd of customers rushed outside..

Two elderly women in their 80s were bleeding and people were putting on cotton bandages," Alankrit said.. "There were more than five Rameshwaram Cafe employees seriously injured..

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