"But unlike the aftermath of those blasts, there were no ambulance sirens, " he says. All Athar could hear was the sound of a car racing through the empty, quiet streets.

A fellow worker pulled him from the basement and an hour later an ambulance took him to the hospital.

But then, the next thing there was an ambulance and I was in hospital.

They ran to the main road and on for a kilometre until ambulances could reach them.

He remembered being loaded into an ambulance.