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

Ghatkopar

Ghatkopar is a suburban neighbourhood of eastern Mumbai. It is also a railway station serviced by Central Railway line of the Mumbai suburban railway.-History:...

. 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 travelling near the bus were among those killed. An eyewitness claims that the woman was thrown at least 10 feet away from the rikshaw and died on the spot.

This is the fourth in a series of five bombings against the city within a period of eight months. Other bombings include

• 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...
  
  
• 27 January 2003 Mumbai Bombing
  27 January 2003 Mumbai Bombing
  On 27 January 2003, a bomb placed on a bicycle exploded near the busy Vile Parle railway station in Mumbai, India. The bomb killed one person and injured 28. The blast occurred when Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Prime Minister of India at the time, was to visit the city.This was the second in a series...
  
  
• 14 March 2003 Mumbai Bombing
• 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...
  
  

External links

• http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/jul/28blast.htm Blast in Ghatkopar in Mumbai, 4 killed and 32 injured.