Acts of terrorism, recent catastrophes, and disasters have created an urgent need for new classifications to characterize, report, and analyze injuries, sequelae of injuries, and deaths associated with these events1.
The aim of this report is to provide a detailed analysis of the autopsy findings of victims of the Varanasi courtyard bombings in 2007, and emphasize the importance of scene investigation and autopsy procedure for deaths due to terrorist bombings.
The data of the materials were collected from the nine deceased that were brought for postmortem examination. Nine Cases for the present study were selected from the dead bodies brought into the mortuary of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, for medico legal postmortem examination from various police stations of Varanasi and surrounding areas.
RDX, ball bearing, bicycles, blast effect, terrorism
