In India, 12 men have been convicted
for their part in the co-ordinated bombings of Mumbai commuter trains in 2006
that killed 189 people and injured more than 800. One man was acquitted.
Sentencing is due tomorrow.
The seven bombs went off during a
15 minute spell, and appeared to have targeted first class compartments as
people were going home from jobs in the city’s financial district. Explosives
were packed into pressure cookers, then put in bags.
Prosecutors said the attack was
planned by Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI, and carried out by the
Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba with help from the Students'
Islamic Movement of India, a banned Indian group. Pakistan has rejected the
allegations.
Mumbai has been hit by a number of
terrorist attacks. In 2013, bombs killed 257 people, and bombers also struck in
2003 and 2011, killing a total of 70, while in 2008, gunmen attacked a number
of places in the city, killing 165.
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