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heart-broken: Vijay Sharma's son Nitesh died at CST station. pic/kranti vibhute

I lost my 15-year-old son Nitesh to the cross firing between police forces and terrorists on Wednesday night at CST. My son and I were returning home after dropping my wife in a Mathura-bound train.

We were on Platform No 1 when the terrorists attacked the station. We first heard some noises, which I mistook for firecrackers. Then the police shouted out for us to run and we realised it was a terror attack. My son fell down and I thought somebody had pushed him.

But when I pulled him up, he sagged in my arms. He was bleeding from the front. A bullet had hit him from the back and gone through the left side of his stomach. He was taken to Bombay Hospital, but he died within 10-15 minutes of getting there.

This is the second tragedy to hit our family. My elder son Vikram was kidnapped in 1987 when he was five and was never found. Our two daughters are all we have now.

Mankhurd resident Vijay Sharma spoke to Kranti Vibhute