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1993 Mumbai serial blasts—How March 12 unfolded

Thursday, Mar 21, 2013, 13:16 IST | Agency: IANS

As the SC announced the verdict in this case. Here is what happened 20 years ago in Mumbai.

Mumbai was rocked by 12 powerful bomb blasts 20 years ago, in what were India's first major, precisely co-ordinated serial explosions that claimed more than 260 lives and left the country stunned.

The blasts, which ripped the country's commercial capital March 12, 1993, were a revenge attack for the Dec 1992-Jan 1993 bloody riots in the city. The riots had occurred after the Dec 6, 1992 demolition of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya by Hindu groups.

Here is a list of the sites targetted in March 1993, the time at which the blasts occurred and the number of lives lost at each site.

* Bombay Stock Exchange - Blast 13.30 pm - 84 dead

* Kalbadevi - Blast 14.15 pm - 5 dead

* Shiv Sena Bhavan - Blast 14.30 pm - 4 dead

* Air India Building, Nariman Point - Blast 14.33 pm - 20 dead

* Fishermen's Colony, Mahim - Blast 14.45 pm - 3 dead

* Worli Century Bazar - Blast 14.45 pm - 113 dead

* Zaveri Bazar - Blast 15.00 pm - 17 dead

* Hotel Sea Rock, Bandra - Blast 15.10 pm - N/A

* Plaza Cinema, Dadar - Blast 15.15 pm - 10 dead

* Hotel Juhu Centaur - Blast 15.20 pm - 3 hurt

* Sahar Airport vicinity - Blast 15.30 pm - N/A

* Hotel Airport Centaur - Blast 15.40 pm - 2 dead