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25 years ago: Mumbai serial blasts on March 12, 1993

On March 12, 1993, 12 blasts ripped through iconic landmarks in Mumbai, including the Stock Exchange, Air India building and outside the Passport Office; 257 people died and 713 were injured

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Photo by Kunal Patil/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
File photo of the Bombay Stock Exchange building on Dalal Street. On March 12, 1993, the first bomb went off in the BSE basement. Around 50 people died in this explosion alone. Over the next two hours, till 3.40 pm, bombs continued to go off in 11 other locations
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Photo by Kalpak Pathak/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
File photo of Zaveri Bazaar in South Mumbai, which was bombed in 1993. A decade later, Zavaeri Bazaar was hit again by bombs, killing several people
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Photo by Namas Bhojani/The India Today Group via Getty Images
View of the collapsed buildings opposite the passport office in Worli, taken on March 13 ,1993, a day after the serial blasts ripped through Mumbai
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Photo by Fawzan Husain/The India Today Group via Getty Images
Onlookers at a bomb blast site in Mumbai March 13, 1993

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Photo by Amit Chakravarty/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
File photo of the blast site at Century Bazaar, Worli taken 13 years later on September 19, 2006
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Photo by Vijayananda Gupta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
File photo of the now demolished Searock Hotel at Bandstand, Bandra West in Mumbai, taken on September 21, 2006; The Searock Hotel was one of the locations bombed in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts

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Photo by Vijayananda Gupta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
File photo of room 1840 (extreme left) in the now demolished Searock Hotel at Bandstand, Bandra West in Mumbai, taken on September 21, 2006: the bomb in Hotel Searock had been placed in this room in 1993
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Photo by Santosh Harhare/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
File photo of Katha Bazaar in South Mumbai, where a bomb had been placed in a two wheeler in 1993. Photo taken on September 21, 2006

Photo by Amit Chakravarty/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
Photo by Amit Chakravarty/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
File photo of Vinduri Mirchandani (90) at her residence, showing the injuries she received during the blasts in 1993. Photo taken on September 19, 2006

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