Mumbai blasts: The fact sheet

Date: 13 July 2011 Chronology: 6:54 pm. First blast at south Mumbai’s crowded Khau Galli in Zaveri Bazaar, India’s largest diamond trading hub. The  explosion occurred outside a store called Super Tools. 6.55 pm. An explosion at Opera House, catagorised as medium to high-intensity blast when a bomb kept on a motorcycle was used to trigger the explosion near the two-storey JK Building at Tata Road No. 1. 7:05 pm. A low-intensity blast at Kabootar Khana in Dadar outside Antonio D’silva school. Bomb placed in an electric meter near the bus stop along the school. [caption id=“attachment_41367” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“A plainclothes policeman surveys the aftermath at the site of an explosion near the Opera House in Mumbai 13 July 2011. Reuters”]  [/caption] Facts: • 18 people dead, including a severed head that is yet to be idenitified •  131 people injured •  23 of the 131 injured are seriously injured. Some critical •  Forensic evidence collected from blast sites indicates use of Ammonium Nitrate with timer devices; not a remotely triggered blast •  Blasts sites have been cordoned off •  All groups capable of carrying out such attacks are suspects. No leads yet: Chidambaram •  2 incidents of terror post 26/11 in Maharashtra • Third blast in Zaveri Bazaar and second in  Dadar since the 1993 serial blasts • CCTVs at the blast spots to help take investigation forward •  The injured have been admitted to hospitals including the JJ Hospital, GT Hospital, KEM Hospital and St George’s Hospital •  The CFSL teams from Delhi (7 members) and Pune (4 members) have reached Mumbai, visited all the sites and collected samples •  NIA team reached Mumbai at 1.40 am on 14 July 2011 •  6-member post blast investigation team of NSG reached Mumbai at 2.25 am on 14 July 2011