Vijay Jhawar’s desperate search through Tuesday night in hospital after hospital for his younger brother Sandeep ended gruesomely at dawn at the Sion Hospital’s OPD.

“He was number 8 on the hospital’s notice board of dead,’’ said Jhawar, in tears outside the morgue. ‘‘How can I break this news to his wife Pooja and young son, Ansh. We have told them he is still missing.’’

Sandeep, a 33-year-old company secretary on his way back home to Bhayander from work in Colaba, was among the 41 bodies brought from the blasted compartments at Mahim and Matunga stations.

Each of the 41 is a man, as are the 40-odd patients in the hospital being treated for injuries caused by the explosions.

Tuesday’s Terror, either by design or because male compartments made simpler targets, has overwhelmingly attacked men. At last count, there were 183 dead among whom only four were women.

A senior city cop who has probed terror attacks on Mumbai in the past argues: ‘‘Men might not have been attacked by design but simply because it was the easier thing to do. Targeting women compartments would mean the modules having women operatives who will place at least 3 kg RDX in a compartment and slip out.’’

But while women and children aren’t Tuesday’s overt targets, the blasts have left scores of wives widowed, children fatherless, and in several cases the sole breadwinner gone.

Like Ajaz Khan (41), travel firm employee, survived by a wife, an 11-year-old daughter, and a 10 month-old son; Tushit Shah (44), a broker who’s left behind his wife and 15-year-old daughter; businessman Lalit Kachalia (42) survived by his wife and son; former hockey player Sanford Desales (44), survived by his wife and daughter who is 10; tour operator Salaeeh Shaikh (42), survived by wife and three children; chemical engineer Parag Karambalekar (mid-40s), survived by a college-going daughter and wife; Anuj Kilawala (47), an insurance agent, survived by his wife, a daughter and a son; police constable Shashikant Bedekar (32), survived by a wife and two young children; bank manager Vinod A T (45) survived by a wife and a school-going son and daughter; Paresh Thakar (37), an insurance seller, survived by wife and school-going daughter.

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