If barely a day goes in Iraq or Bosnia without forces attacks and car bombings, you can assume that it is a peaceful day for them. India, one of the peaceful countries is the world is suffering from the highest amount of terrorist attacks and bombings the country has ever seen in 2008.
Flashback to the serial bomb blasts on March 12' 1993 in Mumbai which gave rise to the term 'serial blasts'. Since then intermittently, there has been terrorist attacks in various parts of the country, generally in Mumbai, the industrial capital of the country, the second biggest one being the one on July 11, 2006 where bombs exploded in the first class compartments of suburban Mumbai trains, resulting in heavy loss of life and limb.
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Two years later in 2008, India been plagued with bomb threats and bomb blasts by terrorists who resort to emailing Tv stations before and soon after commuting the act. Though the terrorist call themselves Indian mujahedeen, Indian police have deciphered Im as a non entity working under the garb of Simi(Students Islamic Movement of India. Take Im of Simi and you get Islamic Mujahadeen. The police are taking bomb threats very seriously and are on the gigantic manhurt to nab the terrorists of the Delhi blasts At the time of writing, an email has been sent to media organizations in Mumbai to blow up three railways stations before the end of the day. As a result, Mumbai is witnessing the highest protection check, it has ever witnessed in its history today. Even if it is a prank, the police cannot afford to take any chances.
Here are the up-to-date ten bomb blasts and terrorist attacks that shook the country in three years (sourced from Dna and Outlook India)
October 29, 2008:
A series of powerful explosions ripped through crowded market areas in New Delhi, killing at least 50 citizen as shoppers in the Indian capital were gearing up for a major Hindu holiday.
July 26, 2008:
Serial blasts in Ahmedabad kill close to 45 and injure over 100
July 25, 2008:
Seven blasts strike the It city of Bangalore killing at least two citizen and wounding at least 20.
May 2008:
Eight serial blasts rock Jaipur in a span of 12 minutes leaving 65 dead and over 150 injured.
January 2008:
Terrorist strike on Crpf camp in Rampur kills eight.
November 2007:
15 citizen killed in seven well-synchronised explosions near court premises in three cities of Uttar Pradesh -- Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad.
October 2007:
2 killed in a blast inside Ajmer Sharif shrine while Ramadan, in Rajasthan.
August 2007:
30 dead, 60 hurt in Hyderabad 'terror' strike.
May 2007:
A bomb at Mecca mosque in Hyderabad kills 11 people.
February 2007:
Two bombs explode aboard a train bound from India to Pakistan, burning to death at least 66 passengers, most of them Pakistanis.
September 2006:
30 dead and 100 hurt in twin blasts at a mosque in Malegaon.
July 2006:
Seven bombs on Mumbai's trains kill over 200 and injure 700 others.
March 2006:
Twin bombings at a train hub and a temple in Varanasi kill 20 people.
October 2005:
Three bombs settled in busy New Delhi markets a day before Diwali kill 62 citizen and injured hundreds.
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