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1993 Mumbai serial blasts: How March 12 unfolded

Mumbai was rocked by 12 powerful bomb blasts 20 years ago, in what were India's first major, precisely co-ordinated serial explosions that claimed more than 260 lives and left the country stunned.

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The blasts, which ripped the country's commercial capital March 12, 1993, were a revenge attack for the Dec 1992-Jan 1993 bloody riots in the city. The riots had occurred after the Dec 6, 1992 demolition of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya by Hindu groups.

Here is a list of the sites targetted in March 1993, the time at which the blasts occurred and the number of lives lost at each site-

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