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The 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing was a terrorist attack that occurred around midnight on 18 February 2007 on the Samjhauta Express, a twice-weekly train service connecting Delhi, India, and Lahore, Pakistan.
27 September 2008 Delhi bombing: Bombings at Mehrauli area, 2 bomb blasts in Delhi flower market 3 21 59 29 September 2008 29 September 2008 western India bombings: 10 killed and 80 injured in bombings in Maharashtra (including Malegaon) and Gujarat bomb blasts Maharashtra: 10 80 60 1 October 2008 2008 Agartala bombings: Agartala: 4 100 61
[33] [34] On 8 January 2011, Swami Aseemanand, a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), confessed that he was involved in the bombing of Samjhauta Express, [35] a statement he later claimed to have made under duress. [36] [37] There have also been allegations that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was responsible for the bombings. [38]
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The bomb exploded around 1:15 pm in Mecca Masjid, a 400-year-old mosque in Hyderabad. [3] The IED contained cyclotol, a 60:40 mixture of RDX and TNT, [6] filled in a 10-inch (250 mm) by 3-inch (76 mm) pipe. [7] The bomb was placed under a heavy marble platform, which took the force of the impact and saved many lives. Two more IEDs were found ...
An earlier train ran between Amritsar and Lahore and vice versa and carried 8,239 persons from India to Pakistan and 10,360 from Pakistan to India from 28 October 1954 to 30 November 1954. [3] Samjhauta Express was a daily train when the service started in 1976 and changed to a twice-weekly schedule in 1994.
Swami Aseemanand (born Naba Kumar Sarkar) is an ex-accused of masterminding the Ajmer Dargah bombing, Mecca Masjid blast, and the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings— [2] [3] [4] before being acquitted of all charges. [5] Aseemanand hailed from West Bengal and was a post-graduate in physics.
Another individual accused in the attack was Bharat Bhai alias Bharat Rateshwar, who is also accused of financing several other Hindutva terrorist attacks such the Mecca Masjid blast and the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings. He was accused of funding and planning terrorist attacks against Muslims to avenge the attacks on Hindus in India. [14]