What the records say
- When
- 11 Jul 2006
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 19.02° N, 72.86° E
- Description
- A series of seven bomb blasts hits the city of Mumbai, India, killing more than 200 people.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2006 Mumbai train bombings.
2006 Mumbai train bombings
2006 terrorist attack on the Mumbai Suburban Railway by Lashkar-e-Taiba
The 2006 Mumbai train bombings, colloquially known as 7/11, were a series of seven bomb blasts on 11 July 2006. They took place over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai, the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the nation's financial capital. The bombs were set off in pressure cookers on trains on the Western Line Suburban Section of the Mumbai Division of Western Railway.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Attentats de Bombay”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2006年孟买火车连环爆炸案”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “インド・ムンバイで鉄道駅や走行中の列車などをあわせて、7か所で爆弾による同時テロが発生(ムンバイ列車爆破事件)。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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