Mass Transit Under Attack

12 July 2006 - 1:00pm

Seven bombs exploded on Mumbai's commuter rail system, the lifeline of the world's fifth most populous metro area. These bombings are the lastest in a decade of terrorist attacks on mass transit around the world.

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"Mass transit remains vulnerable to attack because relatively small bombs can create large human casualties and airport-like screening is difficult if not impossible to apply to transit systems with multiple entry points."

On July 11th, 2006, a series of seven bombs exploded on Mumbai's commuter rail system which carries over 6 million passengers a day and is considered to have the highest passenger density of any urban railway system in the world. The attacks killed at least 200 and injured 700 people.

Source: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 11, 2006

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