30 years ago, on this day, Mumbai still remembers the horrific attacks when a series of bomb blasts ripped through the city, leaving 257 dead and more than 800 seriously injured. It was also the first time that Mumbai, witnessed a terror attack in the form of serial bomb blasts, changing the Mumbai Police’s perception of terror forever. Pics/Ashish Raje
Updated On: 2023-03-12 05:26 PM IST
Compiled by : Asif Ali Sayed
On March 12, 1993, a total of 12 bombs exploded at key locations in Mumbai, including the Bombay Stock Exchange and the Air India building
The police investigations unearth a deadly conspiracy that originated in a meeting held in Dubai shortly after the riots of 1992-93. The meeting was the outcome of Tehreek-e-Inteqam (movement for justice), a movement that was the crystallisation of the anger that resonated within the Muslim community in Asia in the wake of the demolition of the Babri Masjid
The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was quick to capitalise on this anger and roped in wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, who had fled to Pakistan by then, to provide logistical support for the blasts
Among the hundreds of victims who were injured on that fateful day, and still live with the pain of the tragedy, was Kirti Ajmera, now 65-year-old, who narrowly escaped death but not without heavy injuries
Kirti Ajmera told mid-day.com, "The right side of my body still hurts. To this day, shards of glass emerge from my body. My right arm, which was hanging by a strip of tissue when the bomb exploded, would have surely fallen off had I not held it in place with my left hand. The right side of my face was also damaged and my inner ear was ruptured by glass shards.”
