2007 Samjhauta Express Bombings
Attacks with 50+ deaths in bold
- 2001
- Indian Parliament
- Srinagar
- 2002
- 1st Raghunath Temple
- Akshardam Temple
- Kolkata
- Kaluchak massacre
- Qasimnagar massacre
- Rafiganj train
- 2nd Raghunath Temple
- 2002 Mumbai bus bombing
- Kurnool train
- 2003
- 1st Mumbai 2003
- 2nd Mumbai 2003
- 3rd Mumbai 2003
- 4th Mumbai 2003
- 2005
- Ayodhya
- Delhi 2005
- Jaunpur train
- 2006
- Varanasi
- Jama Masjid
- Doda massacre
- Mumbai 2006
- Malegaon
- West Bengal train
- 2007
- Samjhauta Express
- Mecca Masjid
- Hyderabad
- Ajmer Dargah
- Uttar Pradesh
- 2008
- Jaipur
- Bangalore
- Ahmedabad
- 1st Delhi 2008
- 2nd Delhi 2008
- Malegaon/Modasa
- Agartala
- Imphal
- Assam
- Mumbai 2008
- 2009
- 1st Guwahati
- 2nd Guwahati
- 2010
- Bangalore
- Pune
- Dantewada
- Jnaneswari Express
- Jama Masjid Delhi
- Varanasi
- 2011
- Mumbai
- Delhi
- 2012
- Israeli diplomats, Delhi
- Pune
The 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings were 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. Bombs were set off in two carriages, both filled with passengers, just after the train passed Diwana station near the Indian city of Panipat, 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of New Delhi. Sixty-eight people were killed in the ensuing fire and dozens more were injured. Of the 68 fatalities, most were Pakistani civilians, but the victims included some Indian civilians and Indian military personnel guarding the train.
Investigators subsequently found evidence of suitcases with explosives and flammable material, including three undetonated bombs. Inside one of the undetonated suitcases, a digital timer encased in transparent plastic was packed alongside a dozen plastic bottles containing fuel oils and chemicals. After the bombings, eight unaffected carriages were allowed to continue onwards to Lahore with passengers.
Both the Indian and Pakistani governments condemned the attack, and officials on both sides speculated that the perpetrators intended to disrupt improving relations between the two nations, since the attack came just a day before Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri was to arrive in New Delhi to resume peace talks with Indian leaders. There have been a number of breaks in the investigation of the bombings. As of 2011, nobody has been charged for the crime though it has been linked to Abhinav Bharat, a shadowy Hindu fundamentalist group headed by former Indian army officer Prasad Shrikant Purohit. Other allegations also concurred on Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Read more about 2007 Samjhauta Express Bombings: Background, Details, Tension, Investigation
Famous quotes containing the word express:
“Young children...are often uninterested in conversation It is not that they don’t have ideas and feelings, or need to express them to others It is simply that as one eight-year-old boy once told me, “Talking is okay, but I don’t like to do it all the time the way grown-ups do; I guess you have to develop the habit.””
—Robert Coles (20th century)