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| India-Pakistan |
| Islamic groups behind bombings |
| 2003-03-15 |
| Police said they found and defused six bombs at the main railway station in New Delhi yesterday, a day after a blast ripped through a commuter train killing 11 people and injuring 64 others. An investigation into the earlier explosion at a suburban Bombay train station focused on Islamic groups, but police declined to give further details. Thursday evening's explosion, which wrenched open the top and front portions of a train coach reserved for women, came a day after the 10th anniversary of a dozen bomb explosions in Bombay which killed 257 people and wounded at least 1000. Police suspected Muslim militants carried out the attacks 10 years ago to avenge the destruction of a 16th-century mosque by fundamentalist Hindus in 1992. The Maharashtra government said it had information there might be trouble around the anniversary. Ah, yes. The Koranic injunction to take Dire Revenge® for every slight, real or perceived, for every fault, your own or others... Yesterday, police increased security throughout Bombay, India's commercial centre, with random searches of passengers and frequent warnings to be on the alert for suspicious packages. Police were flooded with phone calls from jittery commuters reporting unclaimed baggage. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |