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<text id=93TT1245>
<title>
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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<p>Twelve explosions tear through the city, killing more than 300
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<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.
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<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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