A series of bomb explosions in Mumbai, India, kills 209 people in 2006.
On July 11, 2006, the Mumbai train bombings were a series of seven bomb blasts. They took place on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai, the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the country's financial capital, over the course of 11 minutes. The bombs were detonated in pressure cookers on trains travelling on the Western Line Suburban Section of the Western Railway's Mumbai Division. The explosions claimed the lives of 209 people and injured over 700 others.
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