Mumbai: At least three blasts have occurred in Indian commercial hub Mumbai, killing at least 20 and injuring over 200 people here on Wednesday, Indian Home Ministry says.
Indian Home Ministry reported that 20 people have lost their live in the explosions.
Chief Minister Maharashtra has confirmed the death of 17 people in the three explosions. He also said 81 people received injuries in the blasts.
Indian media reported that one bomb was planted in a motorcycle, one in a vehicle and one in the meter of a bill board.
Security put ob high alert in Delhi after Mumbai blasts. State minister told media Mumbai explosions ‘must be a bomb blast’
MP of South Mumbai told media – Avoid rumor mongering, avoid messages that spread communal discontent.
An Indian television NDTV reports Mumbai police & Home Ministry suspect Indian Mujahideen (crusaders).
Security has been beefed up following the simultaneous blasts.
More than 100 injured and 2 people have succumbed to their injuries.
Police have started searching for one unexploded bomb.
Manohar Joshi, a Shiv Sena leader said the blast were terrorists attacks” this is not a first time terrorists target our city, we will unveil the elements behind the blasts” he added.
According to sources the explosions took place in Zaveri, Dadar Bazaars and Opera House. The blasts took place in the Bazaars packed with people during the rush hours of evening.
Sources said that two blast hit southern part of the city while one exploded in the central part of the populous city.
The Sources that the blasts caused damages to Opera house and other commercial establishments, adding that the blasts took place in the rush hours when a large number of people were busy in shopping.
Heavy contingent of police rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area while fire tenders and rescue workers also made their way to the spot.
Eyewitnesses said one of the explosion went off in a electricity pole.Four casualties have been reported from Zaveri Bazaar while six in Dadar. The dead and injured were being shifted to nearby hospitals.
National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials have been sent to Mumbai to probe the matter.
President and Prime Minister Pakistan strongly condemned the Mumbai blasts and expressed their sympathies with affected families.
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Today’s Mumbai bombings are a reminder that modern terrorism is international and that the solutions need to be international.
13 dead is the official count so far in #Mumbai blasts. More than 200 severely injured. Hospitals in area full.
thread on #Mumbai IED attacks. 10-15 people killed, 3 blasts. 1 bomb hidden under an umbrella.
9 dead in jhaveri bazaar, total 18 dead.
So okay,people will talk today , tmw,probably for a week. And then it will be forgotten like every time .That is the true ” #Mumbai spirit”
Somebody INTENTIONALLY changed Kasab’s birthday on wikipedia to July 13. Official papers say its September 13. Now please stop it
Let’s pray that Pakistani extremists didn’t have a hand in the #Mumbai blasts. We don’t need an India-Pakistan crisis.
Already, reporter on NDTV speculating who is responsible for #Mumbai bombs. For heaven’s sake wait until there are some facts.
4 blasts rock Mumbai – Dadar, Zaveri Bazar, Khau galli in Kalbadevi and Roxy Cinema, Chaupati
4th bomb blast in Kalbadevi. #MumbaiBlasts #Mumbai
20 Killed in #Mumbai blasts.
#Pakistan > WE ARE ALL INDIANS TODAY. #Mumbai #India #Pakistan – Solidarity with victims of Mumbai blast July 2011. Down with terrorism
My thoughts are with the people of #Mumbai who are living through another round of #terrorist bombings.
finally sms ‘s getting thro to #mumbai
Can’t reach a single cell number. Jammed.
Death toll, injury toll rising by the minute; Bystanders: “Mumbai is not safe now
WTF is happening in #Mumbai! Bomb blasts have become a regular phenomenon! Home min has to answer, and helplessness cannot be the answer!
please do spread hope and help through your tweets, not terror
Marine Lines –> Peddar Road –> worli –> BWSL –> Bandra linking Rd/SV road all normal. Just traveling thru
For Help Call Police Control Room #Mumbai 22621855 22621983, 22625020, 22641449, 22620111 etx 100
There was a call received on police control room before the blast and informed there are serial blast going to happen
apart from the safety of fellow human beings, I pray that #Pakistan is not blamed this time. #Mumbai – CANT AFFORD ANOTHER STANDOFF
#mumbai blasts whats new, we are so apathetic that nothings going to be done about this, we’ll just let it blow over! A blooming shame
Ppl of #mumbai, plz do not spill onto the roads to get home asap hearing bomb blasts. Ure life is more imp than time 2 reach home.Take care
Today’s blasts in #Mumbai are quite like the 1992 blasts. Everyone in Mumbai please stay safe and try not to jam the phone lines.
Mumbaikars. Stay safe. Please tweet only confirmed reports, attributed to sources. Last thing #Mumbai needs is panic.
Sad and sick: Today’s #Mumbai attacks are on the birthday of Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, the surviving gunman from the 2008 attacks.
Dadar is a thronging middle class mainly Marathi speaking area of #Mumbai . Shiva Sena being nearby may be incidental or not.
#mumbai blasts whats new, we are so apathetic that nothings going to be done about this, we’ll just let it blow over! A blooming shame
Dadar, Opera House and Churchgate seem to be the targets. #mumbai
Reports of 3 blasts in #Mumbai, explosions reported in Opera house, Dadar Kabootarkhana and Jhaveri Bazar
#Mumbai: Unconfirmed 3rd explosion also reported outside Mumbadevi Temple.
I’m hearing of blasts in #Mumbai , atleast 15 people injured. Let’s say a prayer for everyone there.
I am just hoping, but the visuals so far on TV do not indicate high impact blasts in #Mumbai.
When is our country going to learn? Arms, ammunition, explosives openly available. Coasts, borders left unguarded…frustrating.
lines are open for all – please call 022 6133 6133 for medical advice Please
