At 19:45 hrs on 13 March 2003, a bomb exploded as a train pulled into the
Mulund railway station
Mulund is a railway station on the Central Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
Mulund railway station is connected via the Central Railway to South Bombay and remote places like Khopoli and Kasara.
History
Mulund station was bui ...
. The bomb was placed in the first class ladies' compartment and killed 10 people with 70 injured.
Among the ten killed were four women in the first class compartment, two of which were police constables, and six men who were in the adjoining second class compartment.
This was the third in a series of five bombings against the city within a period of eight months. The other bombings were:
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2002 Mumbai bus bombing
At 18:45 IST on Monday, 2 December 2002, a bomb placed under a seat of a B.E.S.T. bus exploded near the busy Ghatkopar station. The bomb was placed in the rear of a bus near the station and killed two people and injured over 50. Ghatkopar bein ...
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January 2003 Mumbai bombing
On 27 January 2003, a bomb placed on a bicycle exploded near the busy Vile Parle railway station in Mumbai, India. The bomb killed one person and injured 28. The blast occurred when Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Prime Minister of India at the time ...
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July 2003 Mumbai bombing
At 21:15 hrs on 28 July 2003 a bomb placed under a seat of a B.E.S.T. bus exploded on the busy Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg in Ghatkopar. The bomb was placed in the rear of the bus, killing four people and injuring 32. A man who was riding a moto ...
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August 2003 Mumbai bombings
The 25 August 2003 Mumbai bombings were twin car bombings in the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 54, and injured 244 people. One of the bomb explosions took place at the Gateway of India, which is a major tourist attraction. The other bomb ...
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