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Bomb blasts rock India’s financial and entertainment capital

Terror strikes are the biggest attack on Mumbai since 2008 assaults blamed on Pakistan-based militants

Indian police officers look for clues around a car at a bomb blast site in Dadar Kabutarkhana area, in Mumbai on July 13, 2011. Multiple blasts rocked India's financial hub Mumbai, police said, in what the Home Ministry described as a "terror strike" (Getty Images)

Indian police officers look for clues around a car at a bomb blast site in Dadar Kabutarkhana area, in Mumbai on July 13, 2011. Three bombs rocked crowded districts of Mumbai during rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people in the biggest militant attack on India’s financial capital since 2008 assaults blamed on Pakistan-based militants (Getty Images)

Three bombs rocked crowded districts of Mumbai during rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people in the biggest militant attack on India’s financial capital since 2008 assaults blamed on Pakistan-based militants (Getty Images/ Text: Reuters)

This picture posted on Twitter shows the scene of a bomb blast at Zaveri bazar in Mumbai on July 13, 2011. Three simultaneous blasts killed at least 20 people in Mumbai on July 13 in the deadliest attack on India’s commercial capital since the traumatic 2008 assault by militants (Getty Images)

This picture posted on Twitter shows the scene of a bomb blast at Zaveri bazar in Mumbai on July 13, 2011. Three simultaneous blasts killed at least 20 people in Mumbai on July 13 in the deadliest attack on India’s commercial capital since the traumatic 2008 assault by militants (Getty Images)

Three bombs rocked crowded districts of Mumbai during rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people in the biggest militant attack on India’s financial capital since 2008 assaults blamed on Pakistan-based militants (Getty Images/ Text: Reuters)

Three bombs rocked crowded districts of Mumbai during rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people in the biggest militant attack on India’s financial capital since 2008 assaults blamed on Pakistan-based militants (Getty Images)

Indian medical staff attend to injured patients in a ward of The JT Hospital in Mumbai on July 13, 2011, after a series of bomb blasts in the western financial city (Getty Images)

Indian police officials gather around a bomb blast site at the Opera house area in Mumbai on July 13, 2011

[Indian security personnel and investigators gather around the wreckage of a vehicle at a bomb blast site in the Dadar District of Mumbai on July 13, 2011 (Getty Images)

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