Within a span of 15 minutes, three blasts ripped through the crowded areas in Mumbai on Wednesday evening killing at least 21 people and injuring over 140 others. The maximum casualties have been have been reported in Zaveri Bazaar which is a famous jewellery market in Mumbai.
This area appears to be the target of almost every terror attack that has taken place in Mumbai. In the first case in 1993, the police had successfully defused a bomb kept in a scooter when 13 blasts had rocked the city in other places.
In the second case in 2003, a blast at Zaveri Bazaar claimed 54 lives. Wednesday’s blast took place outside a popular eatery which is crowded on most evenings. This blast was of higher intensity than the one at Dadar but the Opera House blast was evidently the most powerful.
All these blasts occurred between 6.50 pm and 7.05 pm on Wednesday. The blast at Zaveri Bazaar was triggered through explosives planted in an umbrella. The one at Opera House was caused by an explosive device concealed in a meter box while the one at Dadar was concealed in a Maruti Esteem car.
Police suspect the hand of a home-grown Islamic terrorist group, the Indian Mujahideen behind the three blasts. Police said the bombings at crowded places bear the signature of what the Indian Mujahideen had used in carrying out earlier blasts in Bangalore, Ahmedabad and New Delhi in 2008 and in Varanasi and Pune in 2010.
This terror attack is a wake-up call to all authorities the world over that even though the United States government had eliminated Osama bin Ladn, it has not eliminated terrorism along with him.
The threat of terrorism still looms high in the world and can strike at any moment at the most unsuspected areas. Lightening may not strike twice at the same place, but terror attack can as is seen in the three-in-a-row attack on Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai.
Hence the world must take notice of the Mumbai attack as a grim reminder to recoup ourselves and be ready to fight terrorism.
Its time to stop gloating on the fact that Laden is dead but America has not killed terrorism and its cause.
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