6 December 2002 Mumbai bus bombing
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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 the people who were killed were those present in the busy station area. The bombing occurred on the 10th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Mosque
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This was the first in a series of five bombings against the city within a period of eight months. Other bombings included:
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:...
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 the people who were killed were those present in the busy station area. The bombing occurred on the 10th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Mosque
Babri Mosque
The Babri Mosque , was a mosque in Ayodhya, a city in the Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh, on Ramkot Hill . It was destroyed in 1992 when a political rally developed into a riot involving 150,000 people, despite a commitment to the Indian Supreme Court by the rally organisers that the mosque...
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This was the first in a series of five bombings against the city within a period of eight months. Other bombings included:
- 27 January 2003 Mumbai bombing27 January 2003 Mumbai BombingOn 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...
- 13 March 2003 Mumbai train bombing13 March 2003 Mumbai train bombingAt 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 bombing28 July 2003 Mumbai bus bombingAt 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 bombings25 August 2003 Mumbai bombingsThe 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/2002/dec/02mum.htm Blast outside Ghatkopar station in Mumbai, 2 killed-Source-Rediff News-December 06, 2002.