Rao also was quoted by several news agencies as appealing for calm among Hindus, in hopes of preventing further retaliation. Bombay hospitals were said to be filled to capacity with the dying and wounded from Friday's firestorm of bombs. One doctor said that people came stumbling into the emergency facility at the hospital, where he works, at such a rate that it was impossible for doctors and nurses to treat them all. He described the injuries as a combination of blunt trauma, concussion type injuries, burns, and penetrating shrapnel wounds. The investigation continues.
Official sources confirm that no group has yet to claim responsibility for the bombings.