SERIAL BOMB BLASTS IN MUMBAI

Serial three bomb explosion occurred in financial capital Mumbai. The first explosion in the Zaveri Bazaar, second in the Opera House business district and third blast in Dadar district.  The first explosion rocked Zaveri Bazaar, a popular jewellery market, at 6.50pm and a minute later another blast shook the busy business area Opera House. A third blast ripped through crowded Dadar area in Central Mumbai at 7.04pm. The blast sites were splattered with blood as some bodies lay strewn around while cars and motorcyles were charred in the impact of the explosions in the country's financial capital. The explosions struck in Mumbai metropolis two days after the fifth anniversary of the serial train blasts here that had left 186 dead and 800 injured.

Blasts in Mumbai in recent years
 2008
As well as the 2008 attacks, co-ordinated blasts on seven of the city's trains on 11 July 2006 caused massive loss of life. More than 180 people were killed and hundreds wounded in those bombings, which were blamed on Islamist militants.

 2003
The city suffered four bomb attacks during 2003, including twin blasts on 25 August 2003 which killed 52 people.

 1993
In 1993, 257 people were killed and 700 injured in a series of 12 bomb blasts across the city. The attacks were allegedly ordered by the Muslim-dominated underworld in retaliation for Hindu-Muslim riots.