A taste of metal and a smell of burning flesh

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7509.127

BMJ 2005;331:127 (16 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7509.127

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After the bomb

A taste of metal and a smell of burning flesh

Kieran Walsh

BMJ Knowledge

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I'd never heard a bomb before yesterday and what I remembermost is not the boom but the whooshing sound afterwards. Friendsfrom Northern Ireland tell me that the vacuum left by the explosioncauses this. Then came a noise of showering glass and seatsand people landing on the road. I was sitting at my desk lookingforward to a day of editing and meetings and my initial thoughtwas, "I'm going to have to cancel my 10 o'clock meeting."

Everyone in BMJ Knowledge and in the BMJ walked down the stairsand out of the back of the building. Some people were cryingbut nobody panicked. When I got into the courtyard, I thoughtI'd better go out the front and see if I could help.

There was a shiny black car abandoned in front of the building—itsfront window had been shattered by a piece of flesh. . . . [Full text of this article]

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