| Kabir
shaken but unhurt after Madrid bombings |
EXCLUSIVE
Kabir says he was shaken but
not hurt after this morning's horrific bomb attacks in Madrid which
left at least 190 people dead and 1200 injured.
"I'm abolutely fine (but) the whole nation is shocked right
now," Kabir told kabir-bedi.com, speaking by telephone from
his Madrid hotel room just hundreds of metres from where one of
the bombs went off.
"There have been all these explosions...
not 400 yards (metres) from the hotel where I am staying."
Kabir
was in Madrid to do a series of press, radio and TV interviews
to promote the Spanish DVD of his Sandokan and Il Ritorno di Sandokan
movies, when tragedy struck in the morning rush hour at three busy
train stations.
"It was 400
metres... from here, the closest of the explosions. There were
four of them."
News reports later said at least 10 bombs had been planted on
four busy trains heading into the Spanish capital.
"I was
asleep when the explosion actually happened, but then when the
team started to arrive here... I realised. It was shown
on the news. I saw it on BBC, CNN, everything else," Kabir
said. "People... were moving in all directions."
Kabir
said today was the final day of his stay in Spain, where he was
due
to leave
this evening.
The attacks meant that he had
to fit in an emergency meeting with his team to reschedule his
media appearances as the Spanish press were covering nothing else
all day.
"Everything is just focusing on this one event
so we are dealing with this," he said.
He also issued a statement
condemning the attacks as a "crime
against humanity" and invoking Mahatma Gandhi's call to use
only peaceful means in the pursuit of political change.
(Read Kabir's
full statement below)
Until today's tragedy, Kabir's trip to Spain had been going very
well.
"Everyone still remembers Sandokan in a big way,
so there's been lots of media coverage and more to come," he
said.
"Unfortunately on the last day today the whole
nation has been plunged into shock and grief."
Kabir's statement on the bombings
in Madrid this morning:
"Finding myself in Madrid at a time of such terrible death, destruction
and injuries to so many, so close to where I am staying, I feel intensely the
suffering of all, and the pain of the families who have lost their nearest and
dearest.
I share their agony in this terrible tragedy.
Let me say that no matter what justification is given, or however strongly the
perpetrators of this violence believe in their cause, nothing, absolutely nothing,
can justify the killing of innocent people trying to live their lives in peace.
In a democracy - and as Mahatma Gandhi has shown - there are ways to resolve
conflict peacefully.
[Spilling] the blood of innocents is a crime
against humanity.
Please stop the violence.
Follow the path of peace."
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