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Publication: India Today
Date: August 11, 2008
Mumbai, Aug 25, 2003
What Happened: Two blasts ripped through Zaveri Bazar and Gateway of India
Death Toll: 46
Device Used: RDX packed in two taxis
Status: Solved, SIMI module busted
Delhi, Oct 29, 2005
What Happened: Three serial blasts rocked the capital before Diwali in crowded
market places and a DTC bus.
Death Toll: 62
Device Used: IEDs in satchel
Status: Unsolved
Varanasi, March 7, 2006
What Happened: Three explosions including one at crowded Sankat Mochan temple
and at a railway station
Death: Toll: 21
Device Used: IEDs in Pressure cookers
Status: Mastermind held
Mumbai, July 11, 2006
What Happened: A series of seven bomb blast struck six local trains at peak
travel time in the evening
Death: Toll: 209
Device Used: IEDs in Pressure cookers
Status: Unsolved
Malegaon, Set 8, 2006
What Happened: Two bomb blasts ripped through the town in Nashik district
in Maharashtra
Death Toll: 40
Device Used: IEDs on bicycles
Status: No arrest
Panipat, Feb 19, 2007
What Happened: Two IEDs went off on the New Delhi-Wagah Samajhauta Express
just before midnight
Death Toll: 66
Device Used: Firebombs triggered by timer
Status: No arrest
Hyderabad, May 18, 2007
What Happened: Twin blast at the Mecca Masjid
Death Toll: 12
Device Used: Pipe bomb triggered by cell phone
Status: No arrest
Hyderabad, Aug 25, 2007
What Happened: Supected HUJI militants struck with twin bomb blast at Lumbini
park and a popular snack stall
Death Toll: 42
Device Used: IEDs with timers
Status: No arrest
Jaipur, May 13, 2008
What Happened: Nine blasts in a market place
Death Toll: 63
Device Used: IEDs on bicycles
Status: No arrests
Bangalore, July 25, 2008
What Happened: Six low-intensity blast rock India's IT capital
Death Toll: 1
Device Used: IEDs
Status: Under investigation
Ahmedabad, July 26, 2008
What Happened: 22 blast in 17 places
Death Toll: 53
Device Used: Improvised directional anti-personnel mines, car bombs
Status: Under investigation
Since terror seeped into the Indian hinterland post-2001, terrorists have
moved on from crude IEDs to sophisticated devices shaped like military anti-personnel
mines, designed to inflict maximum casualties
Shaped to blast pellets and shrapnel in a 60 degree arc for maximum damage
with minimal explosive.
Each pellet has the velocity of .22 calibre bullet.
The Desi Claymore Mine
Improvised Directional Anti-Personnel Mines
were used in Ahmedabad. Copies of Claymore mine were used by several armies
including the US and Pakistan.
Car Filled with LPG Cylinders
Inspired by the 'Gas Limos project' conceived
by Al Queda hand Dhiren Barot. It was successfully use for the first time
in Ahmedabad when an ambulance packed with LPG Cyliders blasted the civil
hospital. Two Wagon Rs in Surat failed to explode.
The M18 Claymore Mine
Designed to ambush infantry. it is a block
of convex-shaped plastic explosive packed with 700 steel ball bearings triggered
either by a timer or a trip wire.
