<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A bomb blast rocked the first class compartment of a suburban train in Mumbai's Khar station on Tuesday evening as the peak hour commuter traffic made its way home.
The Western Railway emergency service confirmed the blast, and said further details were awaited.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->MUMBAI, India - <b>Seven </b>explosions hit Mumbaiâs commuter rail network during rush hour Tuesday evening, ripping apart train compartments and reportedly injuring dozens of people, officials and Indian media said.
<b>The local CNN-IBN news channel said at least 15 people were killed in one of the blasts at Matunga station in central Mumbai. Other Indian television reports indicated the death toll could be in the dozens.</b>
âThe blasts happened when the trains were most crowded,â D.K Shankaran, chief secretary of the state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital said. âTen to 15 people have been injured.â
There was chaos throughout Bombay's crowded rail network following the explosions, and authorities struggled to determine how many people had been killed and injured.
Television images showed injured victims sprawled on train tracks, frantically dialing their cell phones. Some of the injured were being carried away from the crash site.
The force of the blasts ripped doors and windows off carriages, and luggage and debris were strewn about.
Pranay Prabhakar, the spokesman for the Western Railway, confirmed that seven blasts had taken place. He said all trains had been suspended, and he appealed to the public to stay away from the city's train stations.
Bombay, India's financial center, and New Delhi, the capital, were reportedly on high alert. Bombay's commuter rail network is among the most crowded in the world. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Blasts hit trains in Mumbai, 15 reported dead
Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:56 AM EDT
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Explosions hit at least four packed commuter trains during the rush hour on Tuesday in India's financial hub, Mumbai, officials said.
The local CNN-IBN news channel said at least 15 people were killed in one of the blasts at Matunga station in central Mumbai.
"The blasts happened when the trains were most crowded," D.K Shankaran, chief secretary of the state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital said. "Ten to 15 people have been injured."
One television channel showed more than half-a-dozen injured people near the site of another blast in the Khar suburban station of Mumbai. One badly injured person lying near railway tracks was carried away by people using a long sheet of cloth.
<b>Police officials said two more explosions took place in the Santa Cruz and Mahim suburbs of the city.</b>
CNN-IBN reported a fifth blast had taken place but there was no official confirmation.
Dazed survivors were shown with wounds from injuries to heads, legs and hands on the railway station with little sign of any emergency medical aid.
<b>The Mumbai blasts came just hours after suspected Islamist militants killed seven people, six of them tourists, in a series of grenade attacks in Indian Kashmir's main city, Srinagar, police said, the most concerted targeting of civilians in months.</b>
Kashmir has been split between India and Pakistan since shortly after the two countries gained independence from Britain in 1947, but both claim it in full.
Mumbai, a metropolis of about 17 million, has been hit by a series of bomb blasts in the past decade.
More than 250 people died in a string of bomb explosions in Bombay in 1993 for which authorities blamed the city's underworld criminal gangs.
So far, six blasts confirmed along the western railway lines in Mumbai during peak hours, each blast within 5-10 minutes of the other. Among affected stations are Matunga, Mahim, Khar, Jogeshwari, Borivili, and Bhayander. It is not clear yet whether or not there was a seventh blast between Khar and Santa Cruz.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Senator Joe Biden (Democrat, Delaware) has triggered angst within sections of the Indian American community with a comment that prima facie has racist overtones.
Biden, who is bidding for a Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, was reportedly at a political event in New Hampshire when, in conversation with an Indian-American political activist, he said, 'In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian-Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 (a chain store) or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I am not joking.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Any news how many Congress MP families were in first class?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Today is 7/11.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
not linked to Biden but sullahs from Paki or underworld or Indian Muslim.
Waiting for more feedback.
I called somebody - he said he heard on TV this is LeT. He also said something about D. I think however this is AlQ's first direct attack on India. "7/11", serial blasts, coordinated attacks, AlQ signature.
Sack Mammohan,
COngress policy of appeasing Indian Muslims and Naxalites are now paying dividend. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->My father is located in Mumbai and generally uses the Western line to commute home from work. I am trying to get in touch with him but am not able to get through.
Can anyone contact him on xxx and ask him to call us back as soon as possible? If anyone establishes contact, please post it on this forum as well. Or alternately call me on my mobile number xxx <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
and reply..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Got a reply from your father saying that he will try and get in touch with you<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
CNBC is saying it may be copy cat by Dawood or local Indian Islamic Muslims.
Some joker Indian journalist from India was saying US government kind of labeled Dawood as terrorist etc.
Either she dead scared of Dawod and his goon or just his great fan.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Militant held in Delhi, cops probing Mumbai blast link
July 11, 2006 20:48 IST
A militant was on Tuesday arrested in South Delhi and 2.5 kg RDX was seized from his possession, police said.
Aijaz Hussain, hailing from Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested from Lodhi Road area after police received a tip-off about his movement, Delhi's Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar said.
Police was interrogating him to find out if he has any links with the serial blasts in Srinagar and Mumbai and to find which terrorist outfit he belonged to, he said.
An amount of Rs 49 lakh (Rs 4.9 million) was also seized from him, police said, adding that according to their information Hussain was working for one Pakistan-based militant Mukhtar Ahmed. Hussian, who has been living in Jangpura locality of South Delhi, was arrested when he reached the Lodhi Road area in a car to apparently hand over the cash and explosives to someone.
Police, meanwhile, has stepped up security and checking in and around the national capital in the wake of blasts in Mumbai and Srinagar. They are also conducting random searches in hotels and lodges.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Cant we just say scumbag ? Why 'militant' ? Oh well !
Now Police will catch some guys somewhere in India and will shoot him and will announce that he was behind Mumbai attack and end of investigation and leg work. They can't offend Indian Muslims calling them terrorist.
Till today, did they captured any person actually related to Varanasi attack. Politicians are hiding them because they are Indian Muslims. Imam which they say was involved is well cared .
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Some 107 commuters are feared killed after seven powerful blasts ripped through as many crowded local trains during Mumbai's peak rush hour this evening. More than 400 are believed injured.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Serial blasts halt Mumbai's Western Railway
A Correspondent | July 11, 2006 19:03 IST
Last Updated: July 11, 2006 20:50 IST
Seven blasts rocked suburban trains in Mumbai on Tuesday evening, Police Commissioner A N Roy has announced. Police control has reported 63 passengers have been killed in the blasts, and 400 injured. PTI reports that the blasts took place in a span of 30 minutes in first class compartmenets of suburban trains.
As the blasts ripped apart train compartments, mangled bodies of passengers were hurled out and survivors, many of them bleeding profusely, jostled to come out, leading to chaotic scenes. The blasts occured between 6 pm and 6.30 pm at Matunga, Mahim (central Mumbai), Bandra, Khar (in north-west Mumbai), Borivili, Jogeshwari and Mira Road railway stations (in north Mumbai).
<b>Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf</b>, who was at Mahim railway station soon after reports of the blast came in, said he could see one train compartment was completely blown up in the explosion, and people were carrying bodies away. Commuters said an explosion went off in the men's first class compartment on a Western Railway local, which left Churgate station in South Mumbai at 1754, as it was leaving Mahim station on track 3 at around 1820 hours.
A fire brigade official who came on the scene later said he believes that more than 25 injured were removed from the bombed out compartment.
Advocate Chandrakant Dalvi, who was travelling to his home in Dahisar by this compartment, was sitting on the tracks in a daze when rediff.com's reporters met him. He said he could not hear anything in his left ear. He had already got in touch with his relatives to say he was safe, but he had not told them that he was on the train. The fire brigade personnel were sending him to the nearest hospital for a check-up. He said he would take a cab and go home.
Around the tracks seat-cushioning material was lying around, among chappals and shoes and bags. Luggage removed from the compartment was lying on the other side.
Outside the station the road had been cordoned off and two fire engines were posted. But onlookers could view the wreckage from the footbridge and the road.
Two local trains were halted on either side of the bombed train and there was a rush of people leaving the station who were hitching rides home with lorries and tempos.
<b>TV channel CNN-IBN was reporting that atleast 15 people were killed in the Matunga/Mahim blast.</b>
The Western Railway has suspended its suburban services soon after the blasts. Local telephone lines were jammed as panic-stricken commuters called their near and dear ones to alert them of the blasts. Commuters said there was no sign of the police even 30 minutes after the blasts.
A PTI reporter at Santa Cruz station said a blast rocked a Borivali-bound local at 1824 hours, and seven to eight injured commuters jumped out of the speeding train in panic.Â
<b>At least 10 bodies were brought to the KEM Hospital in central Mumbai, and another 20 seriously injured people were admitted to it.</b>
A few more injured were reportedly taken to the government hospital at Sion in central Mumbai, Bhabha Hospital and V N Desai Hospital from the blast sites in western Mumbai suburbs, hospital sources said.
The police have cordoned off all railway stations on the Western line and strict frisking and checking was being carried out at the Central and Harbour sections of local train services.
Police suspect that it is a <b>pre-planned subversive plot </b>similar to the explosions that had rocked Mumbai in 1993, 2002 and 2003.
Nobody can accuse Pak of not doing anything in return!
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India's $25 million gift to Pakistan
July 11, 2006
Pakistan High Commissioner Aziz Ahmad Khan and Foreign Secretary of India Shyam Saran after they signed a Memorandum of Understanding in New Delhi on July 11, 2006, to help Pakistan with $25 million for the victims of the October earthquake.
