Hyderabad twin blasts revive India's face-off with terror

Hyderabad, Aug 26 (UNI) Yesterday's twin blasts at Lumbini amphitheatre and an eatery in Hyderabad killing 42 people have brought back the ghastly memories of the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai which killed as many as 257 people.

In February 1998, a series of 12 bomb blasts happened in Coimbatore shortly before Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani was to address an election meeting. Fifty-eight lives were lost in the incident.

Mumbai, once again began the target when in August 2003 terrorists blew up two explosives-laden taxis, killing 52 people.

However, nothing could have been more saddening than the blasts in crowded markets of New Delhi on October 2005 on the eve on Diwali which claimed sixty-two lives.

The following year in March twenty people were killed in twin blast at railway station and a temple in Varanasi.

The same year in July, serial blasts on local trains in Mumbai-the lifeline of the city-atleast 180 people were killed.

In September 2006, 30 people were killed and atleast 100 injured in twin blasts at a mosque in malegaon.

Recently in May 2007, eleven people were killed in bomb blast at Hyderabad's Mecca mosque after Friday prayers.

UNI