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9 killed, 57 injured in Pune bomb blast

February 14th, 2010 Contributor No comments

A bomb detonated in a crowded bakery popular with foreigners in western India killing nine people and wounding 57, officials said Sunday, the first terrorist attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai massacre.
Initially the police said it was a gas cylinder blast, but the explosion is now suspected to be an improvised explosive [...]

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26/11 accused Fahim Ansari lawyer Shahid Azmi shot dead

February 12th, 2010 Contributor No comments

Shahid Azmi (32), the lawyer representing Fahim Ansari, one of three men being tried in India for their role in the Mumbai 26/11 attack in 2008, was shot dead on Thursday.
Some unidentified persons barged into Azmi’s office in Taximen’s Colony in Kurla, north-east Mumbai suburb, just before 9 p.m. and opened fire at him.
Azmi [...]

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