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- Mar. 22, 1993: Bombs in Bombay
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 22
- WORLD
- Bombs in Bombay
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- <body>
- <p>Twelve explosions tear through the city, killing more than 300
- </p>
- <p> The first blast rocked a garage under the gleaming 29-story
- Bombay Stock Exchange. Over the next 2 1/2 hours, 11 more major
- detonations and several minor ones, most caused by car bombs,
- shook the center and some of the suburbs of India's largest
- city, killing more than 300, injuring 1,100 and leaving behind
- massive damage. The explosions touched off a blaze on the
- trading floor of the exchange, blew out the ground floor of Air
- India's headquarters and damaged three hotels.
- </p>
- <p> As in the attack two weeks earlier on New York City's
- World Trade Center, which the first Bombay bombing appeared to
- resemble, at first no person or group claimed responsibility.
- Speculation as to the bombers focused on, among others,
- separatist groups backed by Pakistan and Hindu and Muslim
- militants in the wake of sectarian rioting in Bombay last
- December and January that claimed 900 lives. By Saturday police
- were questioning several suspects, but no arrests had been made.
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- </body>
- </article>
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