Mumbai Terror Attacks

MUMBAI TERROR ATTACK

Terrorism has assumed serious dimensions after the September 11 attack on the twin towers of World

Trade Centre in United States of America. The full blown up pictures of the abrupt vertical collapse of the commercial might of USA was witnessed world over.

Since then the periodical attacks are aimed at various targets by the radical groups in various parts of the globe. Stringent laws vis-à-vis non-political swift handling of the terrorist attacks in some countries has yielded deterrent results and the countries were able to overcome this menace. However, contrary to this, India which has belatedly converted into the epicenter of terrorism, is dealt with casual approach and resulted into heavy mortality and gave a setback to the growing economy.

Mumbai is no stranger to terror attacks. Its checkered history includes terrorist bombings in Mumbai since 13 co-ordinated bomb explosions killed 257 people and injured 700 on 12 March 1993. The 1993 attacks are believed to be retaliation for the Babri Mosque demolition.

On 6 December 2002, a blast in a BEST bus near Ghatkopar station killed two people and injured 28. The bombing occurred on the tenth anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya. A bicycle bomb exploded near the Vile Parle station in Mumbai, killing one person and injuring 25 on 27 January 2003, a day before the visit of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India to the city.

On 13 March 2003, a day after the tenth anniversary of the 1993 Bombay bombings, a bomb exploded in a train compartment near the Mulund station, killing 10 people and injuring 70. On 28 July 2003, a blast in a BEST bus in Ghatkopar killed 4 people and injured 32. On 25 August 2003 two bombs exploded in South Mumbai, one near the Gateway of India and the other at Zaveri Bazaar in Kalbadevi. At least 44 people were killed and 150 injured.

On 11 July 2006, seven bombs exploded within 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai. 209...