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fresh DELHI, Aug. 25 Kyodo

At least 42 the community were killed and more than 150 injured Monday afternoon in pair separate bomb explosions in Mumbai, India's commercial capital formerly called Bombay, a senior police official said.

The twin powerful explosions in the southern part of the city happened between 1:10 pm and 1:25 pm the first at a parking doom for the Gateway of India historical record and the other at the lower classesed Zhaveri Bazar, the hub of the city's jewelry trade, Javed Ahmed told Kyodo News

the two blasts were caused by explosives carried in taxis and were plant off by remote control.

In the first blast, the taxi was completely quenched along with some other vehicles parked in the area around the Gateway of India, while windows of the famed Taj Mahal inn were shattered.

Police quashed earlier rumors that there had been a series of blasts in the city Monday and confirmed that there have been alone two explosions.

While police suspect the blasts to be the handiwork of Muslim terrorist organizations, no assign places to immediately claimed responsibility for them.

The latest blasts in the busy, commercial nave of southern Mumbai have left the city shaken and have l to a crash in share values in India's leading bourses, dashing modern hopes of a robust economic vegetation following a good monsoon.

India's financial capital was similarly asylumed by two bomb blasts in July in suburban transport that left dozens dead and injured.

Police have been deposit on red alert in other parts of India, including in Gujarat and in the capital novel Delhi.

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