Major attacks in India since 2003
Posted by naatmad on Friday, 25 July, 2008
- Seven blasts hit the Indian IT city of Bangalore on Friday, killing at least one person, police said.
Following is a chronology of some of the major attacks in India in the last five years:
March 13, 2003 – A bomb attack on a commuter train in Mumbai kills 11 people.
August 25, 2003 – Two almost simultaneous car bombs kill about 60 in Mumbai.
August 15, 2004 – Bomb explodes in northeastern state of Assam, killing 16 people, mostly schoolchildren, and wounding dozens.
October 29, 2005 – Sixty-six people are killed when three blasts rip through markets in New Delhi.
March 7, 2006 – At least 15 people are killed and 60 wounded in three explosions in the north Indian Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi.
July 11, 2006 – More than 180 people are killed in seven bomb explosions at railway stations and on trains in Mumbai, blamed on Islamist militants.
September 8, 2006 – At least 32 people are killed in a series of explosions, including one near a mosque, in Malegaon town, 260 km northeast of Mumbai. Continued…
Source Reuters