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Everyone on assignment here is fine however, it was a significantly close call.
Gulshan, Mike, Divium (Our Friend from UBS) and I were out near Saga lake at a place called "Eat-Street" last night. This is about 1 mile from Lumbini Park. When we were finsihed exploring Eat-Street, we took a rickshaw past Lumbini Park. We saw an excellent multi-colored light show and many people. We really wanted to stop and check it out but Gulshan made a comment about eating and we all agreed that we should continue traveling and find a place to sit down and eat before it got to late into the evening.
It was about 15-20 minutes later that each of our cell phones began ringing in sucession from concerned family, friends and co-workers. It was truly amazing how quickly the news traveled back to the US. Everyone in the states seemed to know what had happened long before we did.
Today the city is being locked down to foriegners by their companies and the police are on high alert as they expect more violence given the magnitude of last night. As I understand it, some 27 other explosive devices have been found and disabled across the city and the death toll is up to 37 at the time of this post.
I want to thank everyone who reads my blog and either called or thought of me and the other Deliver Leads over the last twenty four hours.
-Jason
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