Terrorist Attacks in India : July 11th 2006

Once again, India has been attacked by terrorists. Today, a series of blasts rocked Srinagar and Mumbai. While there were 5 blasts in Srinagar, first one being at 11:50 am, killing atleast 5 people and injuring 12 others as per initial reports, Mumbai had a series of 7 synchronized blasts. Unconfirmed reports said that atleast a dozen people were killed in the explosions. The Bombay explosions happened in a span of 30 minutes, around 6-6:30 pm.

Hindustan Times reports about Bombay attacks:

At Matunga station, the blast was so powerful that it not only ripped through
the first class coach but also blew off a portion of the platform shed. Bodies
were seen scattered on the tracks while many injured, some of them profusely
bleeding, were attended to by fellow travelers on the platform before being
rushed to nearby hospitals.
Police suspect that it is a pre-planned
subversive plot similar to the explosions that had rocked Mumbai in 1993 and
2002 and 2003.

And about Srinagar:

Terrorists hurled a grenade at a vehicle carrying tourists near Sultan Bakery at
Dal Gate around 11.50 am, killing five persons, including three women, and
injuring 12 others, they said.
All the dead were from Kolkata while nine of the injured were also from West Bengal. Two injured were residents of Dal Gate while another person wounded was from Udhampur, the officials said.
This was the sixth attack on tourists in the Kashmir valley since the beginning of the
tourist season this year.

Here's the link for some pictures of the blast from BBC.

This is such a shameful act by the terrorist organizations. A lot of people were injured and died in these bomb blasts. I believe that the number of casualties reported is far less than the actual numbers.

For the people who died today in the blasts: May their soul rest in peace

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Update 1 : CNN IBN is reporting that more than 139 people feared dead in Mumbai blasts

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Update 2 : Indian Intelligence believes that the attacks were carried out by Al-Qaeda and Dawood Ibrahim
MSNBC Reports:

Indian intelligence believes the attacks on Mumbai’s commuter train network on Tuesday, killing scores during the evening rush hour, might be the work of Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian Muslim with ties to al-Qaida.

Ibrahim is believed to have been responsible for the 1993 attacks that killed 260 in Mumbai, India’s commercial hub formerly known as Bombay.

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Update 3 : CNN-IBN puts the figures at 174 dead and 403 injured.