Tuesday, August 26, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Mumbai panics as twin blasts kill 46
 Bombs hidden in taxis
 Zaveri Bazar, Gateway of India targeted
 Shinde government ouster demanded
The mangled remains of a taxi destroyed in a bomb blast lies in front of the Gateway of India in Mumbai on Monday. Mumbai, August 25
Mumbai was reduced to a state of panic today as two powerful bomb blasts claimed more than 46 lives and injured more than 200. The bombs, made from high-grade explosives, were hidden in the boots of taxis parked at the Gateway of India and the crowded Zaveri Bazar, a few kilometres from each other.
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The mangled remains of a taxi destroyed in a bomb blast lies in front of the Gateway of India in Mumbai on Monday. — Reuters photo

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Heart-rending scenes in hospitals
Mumbai, August 25
It was a terrifying experience for some schoolchildren when the body of a person killed in today’s blast here, fell out of a van, right in front of their bus. The deceased were being taken to the J. J. Hospital for post-mortem when the driver applied the brakes and the body fell out from the police van, chock-a-block with the remains of the dead.

Army experts flown to Mumbai
New Delhi, August 25
As the Mumbai administration is trying hard to cope with the aftermath of the two high-intensity blasts which have claimed over 45, the Centre this evening ordered explosive experts from the National Security Guard and Army to be flown to the metropolis to help in investigations.

Dawood behind blasts
Arrests on anvil; Bangalore, Hyderabad next targets
New Delhi, August 25
Central agencies have warned that Bangalore and Hyderabad could be the next targets of Pakistan-aided terrorists after today’s bomb blasts in Mumbai in which India’s most wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim and his D Company have been used in a big way.

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Lucknow, August 25
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BSP supremo Kanshi Ram and UP Chief Minister Mayawati at the party’s all-India workers’ convention at Ambedkar Maidan in Lucknow on Monday. BSP supremo Kanshi Ram and UP Chief Minister Mayawati at the party’s all-India workers’ convention at Ambedkar Maidan in Lucknow on Monday.
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Evidence of temple found: ASI
Lucknow, August 25
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which carried out an excavation in Ayodhya, has claimed to have found a 10th century temple beneath the Babri mosque site in its report which was made public by the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court today.
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