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India: Mumbai blasts kill 17, wound 100
(Video) 3 explosions rock India's financial capital killing 17 people, injuring 100, nearly 3 years after major terrorist attack in city
VIDEO - Three explosions rocked busy locations in India's financial capital
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late Wednesday, killing some 17 people and injuring 100 in the city that was the scene of a major terrorist attack nearly three years ago.
The Press Trust of India and several news channel reported that India's Home Ministry had called the explosions a terror attack. Soon thereafter, security officials confirmed the explosions were infact terror attacks.
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Television footage showed dozens of police offcials, several of them armed, at the sites of the explosion and at least one car with it's windows shattered could be seen.
An official at the city's Police Control Room said one blast was in the crowded neighborhood of Dadar in central Mumbai. The others were at the famed jewelry market Jhaveri Bazaar and the busy business district of Opera House.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of office policy.
"It must be a bomb blast," Chhagan Bhujbal, a state minister told a TV news channel.
The explosions took place around 7 pm, when all the neighborhoods would have been packed with office workers and rush hour commuters.
The blasts - if confirmed as a terror strike - would mark the first major attack on Mumbai since 10 militants laid siege to India's financial capital for 60 hours in November 2008.
That attack, which targeted two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and a busy train station, was blamed on Pakistan-based militant groups. The attacks escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals and prompted them to suspend peace talks.
However, the talks have recently resumed.
Pakistan's government expressed distress on the loss of lives and injuries soon after Wednesday's blasts were reported.
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