Scores Dead In Mumbai Explosions

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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5169332.stm

Scores of people have been killed in at least seven blasts on trains in the Indian financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), police say.

The city's police Chief AN Roy said on Indian TV as many as 100 people were feared killed and more than 250 hurt.

The first blast went off at about 1830 local time (1300 GMT), during the peak of the evening rush hour in the suburbs on the busy Western Railway.

Indian TV channels have shown pictures of bodies by the tracks.

There have been a number of bomb attacks in Mumbai in recent years.

Police said the near-simultaneous blasts took place at Borivili, Khar, Jogeshwari, Matunga and Meera Road areas, with most on moving trains.

Reports described people jumping from trains.

Television images show dazed and blood-splattered commuters being carried by fellow passengers to waiting ambulances, as rescue workers clambered through wreckage to reach blast victims.

The force of the blasts ripped doors and windows off carriages and scattered luggage and debris.

Clothes, shoes and personal possessions were strewn along the tracks.

Mumbai and the capital Delhi have been put on high alert, and Mumbai's entire rail network has been shut down.

The city's suburban train system is one of the busiest in the world, carrying more than six million commuters a day.