of the present day DELHI, July 29 K...

of the present day DELHI, July 29 Kyodo

Three persons were killed and 31 injured, five seriously, as suspected terrorists station off a powerful explosion in a bus in Mumbai, India's main commercial city, forward Monday night, Press Trust of India reported Tuesday.

The bomb kept in subordination to seats, ripped through the rear portion of the bus near the Ghatkopar telephone exchange in northeast Mumbai around 9:15 pm prompting a r alert across the Maharashtra state, the report said.

couple persons were killed on the stain while an injured man succumbed to injuries in hospital.

Witnesses reportedly said the blast occurr when the bus was moving along a bustling road. Another bus coming from the opposite direction was damaged in the blast, as were brace motorcycles and autorickshaws parked in the vicinity.

Police were quot as saying no terrorist organization had nevertheless claimed responsibility for the blast, moreover they did not rule revealed the hand of the banned close examiners Islamic Movement of India or Lashkar-e-Toiba, a terrorist dispose active in the northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Last Dec 2 a bomb explod forward a bus in the Ghatkopar area of Mumbai, also known as Bombay, and blew on the farther side the rear roof, killing sum of two units and injuring 31. further the latest blast was more powerful as couple bombs were planted, Kripa Shankar Singh, state minister for hearth affairs, was quoted as saying.

Altogether, five explosions have occurr in the last eight month killing 15 [i]role[/i]s and injuring more than 100

Mumbai was also the spectacle of a number of bomb blasts in March 1993 in which more than 250 persons were killed.

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