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| Mumbai under attack: Over 100 dead in serial blasts | | | Mumbai, July 11, 2006
Over 100 people were killed in a series of seven blasts in suburban trains and platforms in Mumbai on Tuesday evening, Police Commissioner AN Roy said.
However, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh put the number of dead at 50, besides scores injured.
The blasts occurred in a synchronised manner in the first class compartments of seven suburban trains and on platforms during the peak hour traffic on Tuesday evening.
Unconfirmed reports as well as eyewitnesses said over a dozen people might have been killed in the explosions that took place in a span of 30 minutes at suburban Matunga Road, Khar, Jogeshwari, Borivili and Bhayender railway stations.
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 travellers 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.
All suburban and long-distance trains on the Western railway lines were suspended and police cordoned off the major road intersections, railway stations and exit points.
A Person travelling by one of the affected suburban trains said the explosion took place in the first class compartment next to the one he was travelling in, ripping off the entire top of the compartment.
He saw a large number of injured being removed from the damaged compartment, although it was not clear whether some of them had died.
Another Person correspondent who was waiting to catch a train at Santacruz railway station, saw an explosion taking place in a train that was about to enter the station.
He reported that at least 25 people were injured in the blast that once again had taken place in the first class compartment.
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