On 27 January 2003, a bomb placed on a bicycle exploded near the busy Vile Parle

Vile Parle

Vile Parle , also known as "Parla", is a suburb of Mumbai. Vile Parle is also the name of the railway station in this suburb, on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway railway line. Vile Parle has a significantly strong base of Marathi and Gujarati population. The name "Vile Parle" has...

 railway station in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, India

India

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. The bomb killed one person and injured 28. The blast occurred when Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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, the Prime Minister of India

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 at the time, was to visit the city.

This was the second in a series of five bombings against the city within a period of eight months. Other bombings included:

• 6 December 2002 Mumbai bus bombing
  6 December 2002 Mumbai bus bombing
  At 18:45 IST on Friday, 6 December 2002, a bomb placed under a seat of an empty B.E.S.T. bus exploded near the busy Ghatkopar station. The bomb was placed in the rear of an empty bus parked near the station and killed two people and injured 28. There were no passengers in the bus at that time and...
  
  
• 13 March 2003 Mumbai train bombing
  13 March 2003 Mumbai train bombing
  At 21:45 hrs on 13 March 2003 a bomb exploded as a train pulled into Mulund Station. The bomb was placed in the first class ladies compartment and killed 10 people and injured 70. Among the ten killed were four women who were in the first class compartment and six men who were in the adjoining...
  
  
• 28 July 2003 Mumbai bus bombing
  28 July 2003 Mumbai bus bombing
  At 21:15 hrs on 28 July 2003 a bomb placed under a seat of a B.E.S.T. bus exploded on the busy Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg in Ghatkopar. The bomb was placed in the rear of the bus and killed 4 people and injured 32. A man who was riding a motorcycle behind the bus and a woman who was in a rikshaw...
  
  
• 25 August 2003 Mumbai bombings
  25 August 2003 Mumbai bombings
  The 25 August 2003 Mumbai bombings were twin car bombings in the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 54, and injured 244 people. One of the bomb explosions took place at the Gateway of India, which is a major tourist attraction. The other bomb went off in a jewellery market Zaveri Bazaar near the...