Three blasts rock Mumbai, home min confirms use of IEDs

Four feared killed, over 50 injured in Dadar, Zaveri Bazar and Opera House areas

GN Bureau | July 13, 2011



Three blasts were reported in Mumbai on Wednesday evening in the crowded Dadar, Opera House and Zaveri Bazar areas. The police has not confirmed the nature and the intensity of the blasts.

But news channels reported a police person saying that the blast in Dadar's Kabutarkhana area occurred in a car, while the one in Zaveri Bazar might have originated in a meter box behind a hoarding in the crowded Khau Gali area.

The city has been put on high alert, while unconfirmed news channel reports suggest that at least four people are feared to have been killed in the blasts.

A national investigation agency (NIA) team, meanwhile, has rushed to the city even as news channels have reported that the home ministry has confirmed the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), raising fears that this might be a terror attack.

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