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Car blasts kill 46
By Ramola Talwar Badam
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOMBAY, India — A pair of
car bombs ripped through
lunchtime crowds in India’s
financial capital, Bombay, on
Monday, killing 44 people and
wreaking havoc at a crowded
jewelry market and a popular his
toric landmark. More than 150
people were wounded.
Police were focusing their
investigation on Muslim mili
tant groups. But victims from
the explosions were almost cer
tain to include both Muslims
and Hindus.
In a cramped shoe store in a
comer of the jewelry market,
Hindu shopowner Tilak Raj
mourned the death of his Muslim
employee, Abdul Mullah.
“He had just left the shop and
was sitting under a tree when the
buildings shook,” Raj said. Like
many witnesses, he described
torn and dismembered limbs
strewn by the blast in the narrow
road lined with shops. The street
was littered with shattered glass
and metal and the slippers left
by crowds trampling each other
to flee.
The bombs were hidden in
the trunks of two taxis and
exploded within five minutes of
each other, police said. Several
people were being interrogated,
including one taxi driver. No one
immediately claimed responsi
bility for the bombings.
The timing raised concerns
the blasts was linked to a dispute
over a religious site in the north
ern city of Ayodhya claimed by
both Hindus and Muslims that
has been the source of much
bloodshed in the past. The
bombings came hours after the
release of a long-awaited archae
ological report on the site that
itself showed divisions over the
site’s history.
Ranjit Shanna, a police com
missioner, . also put blame on
India’s longtime rival, Pakistan,
saying suspicion in the blast fell
on Islamic militant groups “let
loose by the enemy country.”
He specifically mentioned the
Students Islamic Movement of
India, or SIMI, a militant
Muslim students’ group out
lawed in 2001, and Lashkar-e-
Tayyaba, one of more than a
dozen Islamic rebel groups fight
ing Indian security forces in
Kashmir since 1989, seeking
independence for the Himalayan
province or its merger with
Muslim-dominated Pakistan.
The reference to Pakistan
could increase tension between
the nuclear-armed neighbors at a
time when the two countries are
taking steps to improve relations.
Pakistan — which has fought
three wars with India and came
close to a fourth last year —
quickly condemned the attacks as
“an act of terrorism.”
“We deplore these attacks and
At least 46 killed
in Bombay blasts
Car bombs exploded at a
crowded jewelry market, Zaveri
Bazaar, and a historic
landmark, the Gateway of India,
on Monday. Police were
focusing their investigation on
Muslim militants.
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we sympathize with the victims
and their families,” Pakistan
Foreign Ministry spokesman
Masood Khan said. “I think that
such wanton targeting of civilians
should be condemned in the
strongest possible terms.”
New Delhi accuses Pakistan
of supporting militants, which
Islamabad denies. Indian
police said there was no direct
evidence linking those groups,
or Pakistan, to Monday’s
bombings.
The attacks appeared aimed
more at the city itself than at
members of a particular religion.
One of the bombs exploded
at the Gateway of India, a his
toric landmark and tourist
attraction built by India’s former
British colonizers to commemo
rate the 1911 visit of King
George V. The massive arch is
often host to outdoor concerts
and is a popular lunchtime eat
ing spot for both Hindus and
Muslims. The other blast was at
the crowded neighborhood of
jewelry stores, where many
shops are owned by Hindus but
where many of the artisans are
Muslims.
“All kinds of people work
here — Hindus, Muslims and
Christians,” said Ali Asghar, 24,
a student whose father works in
a bank near the jewelry market,
“This is not about religion.”
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