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| 18 dead, 133 injured in three bomb |
| Mumbai terror attacks: 18 dead, 133 injured in three bomb blasts
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| INDIA
, 14-July-2011
0:30:24 AM |
| Mumbai woke to a rainy morning in the aftermath of its first terror attack since 26/11. Despite the special hubs for tackling terror strikes, it was left exposed yet again last evening - three blasts within 12 minutes. Eighteen people have died and 133 injured. The city has been sealed and is on high alert; so are Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore.
Through the night, the hospitals in Mumbai were in overdrive.
Home Minister P Chidambaram, who reached the city last night, visited each of the three locations. He addressed the media on Thursday morning to once again say that Mumbai had suffered a terror attack after 31 months and that this was a "coordinated terror attack."
He said 17 people had died, 131 people were admitted to 13 hospitals. Of these 26 had been discharged, 82 were stable and 23 were seriously injured, some were in critical condition. He also said that one severed head had been found taking the toll to 18 - the person was yet to be identified. He said preliminary assessment showed the blast at Dadar was one of low intensity. The ones at Zaveri Bazaar and Opera House were of medium to high intensity.
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who called the terror strike "an attack on the heart of India," visited JJ Hospital where 20 people were admitted, nine with serious burn injuries. All serious burn injury victims are being moved to JJ Hospital.
Initial investigations reveal Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) ripped through the Wednesday evening rush hour. Sources say upto seven IEDs may have been used in the three blasts. At a bus stop in Dadar, the IED was planted inside an electrical box; outside the popular snack shops in Zaveri Bazaar in South Mumbai, the IED was placed on a motorcycle under an umbrella; next to Opera House, the device, police say, was placed in a ditch on the road
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