Explosions shake Mumbai

Three blasts ripped through India’s financial hub during rush hour, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 80.

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Vipin Soni mourns during the cremation Thursday of his brother Pankaj Soni, a bomb-blast victim of Wednesday's Zaveri bazaar explosion in Mumbai. No terror group has claimed responsibility for the triple bombings that killed at least 18 people in India's financial capital, and investigators had no immediate suspects in the attacks that came without warning, the country's top security official said Thursday.

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Family members pay their respects as they walk past the body of Tushar Shah at a crematorium in Mumbai. Indian investigators probed triple bomb blasts that struck the nation's commercial capital, which is still emerging from the shadows of deadly militant attacks in 2008. The strongest of the coordinated explosions hit busy districts in the south of the city, the same area targeted two and half years ago by Pakistan-based gunmen who caused mayhem with a 60-hour siege that left 166 people dead.

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In Ahmedabad, India, staff members of GaneshaSpeaks.com, a company devoted to Web site astrology, participate in a candlelight vigil in memory of those who died and were injured in the Mumbai triple blasts.

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In Hyderabad, Indian activists of the Communist Party of India burn an effigy of a terrorist and shout slogans condemning the blasts.

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A victim of one of the explosions is carried for treatment to the JT Hospital in Mumbai.

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July 13, 2011

Indian bystanders gather around a damaged vehicle at a bomb blast site in the Dadar district of Mumbai. Multiple blasts have rocked India's financial hub Mumbai, police said, in what the Home Ministry described as a terror strike.

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July 13, 2011

Indian security personnel and investigators gather at a bomb blast site in the Dadar District of Mumbai. The blasts targeted crowded areas of India's financial capital, including a street lined with jewelry shops.

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July 13, 2011

Indian police officers stand around a car at the blast site in the middle-class Dadar Kabutarkhana area.

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July 13, 2011

Bystanders gather to watch as Indian police cordon off the area at a bomb blast site in Dadar Kabutarkhana area. Television images showed large crowds of onlookers at the blast sites, cars with shattered windows and police officers combing the areas in the rain. One eyewitness showed the TV cameras cellphone photos he had taken of bleeding bodies strewn on the ground.

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July 13, 2011

Indian police cordon off the area of a bomb blast site in Dadar Kabutarkhana. Police said that the targets appeared to have been carefully chosen to create panic in crowded places just as people were heading home from work.

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July 13, 2011

Indian security personnel and investigators gather at a bomb blast site in the Dadar District.

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July 13, 2011

Indian police officers look for clues at a bomb blast site in Dadar Kabutarkhana.

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July 13, 2011

Indian security officials gather around a damaged vehicle at a bomb blast site at the Opera House district of Mumbai.

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July 13, 2011

Relatives of victims of an explosion cry outside a hospital.

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July 13, 2011

Indian police officers look for clues around a car at a bomb blast site in Dadar Kabutarkhana.

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July 13, 2011

Indian police officers look for clues at the blast site in Dadar Kabutarkhana.

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July 13, 2011

Indian police officers look for clues at the blast site in Dadar Kabutarkhana.

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July 13, 2011

Indian police officers look for clues at the blast site in Dadar Kabutarkhana.

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July 13, 2011

Indian police stand near a bomb blast site in Dadar Kabutarkhana.

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