Serial blasts struck Mumbai Wednesday evening, less than three years after the 26/11 terrorist attacks of 2008. The three blasts, in sequence, were timed at 6.30 pm, 6.45 pm, and 7 pm IST, and targeted in that order Zaveri Bazaar, Opera House and the Kabutarkhana area of Dadar West. Zaveri Bazaar, centre of the jewellery industry, is adjacent the iconic Mumbadevi temple from which the city derives its name; both Zaveri Bazaar and Kabutarkhana were also targeted in the 1993 serial blasts.Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday described Wednesday's three serial explosions Mumbai as unfortunate and warned that every city of India was vulnerable to coordinated attacks by terrorists.
Security agencies have identified the owner of the two-wheeler in which the explosive material was planted at Zaveri Bazar in Mumbai even as as cyber experts are looking into an email which may have some cross-border links.
Union home secretary R K Singh said investigations into the serial blasts in the metropolis were going on and several people were being questioned based on their "previous known linkages".
"This investigation is on. We have identified the scooter in which one of the bombs was planted," he told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.
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