Genre: News > India

Sep 7, 2009: An UAE air force plane that made an emergency landing at Kolkata airport for refuelling on Sunday was detained for carrying arms and explosives without declaring them.

The aircraft was flying from Abu Dhabi to Hanyang in China.

The pilot and eight others are being questioned by the security agencies.

Background

Major bomb blasts in India:

Mar 1993: Mumbai serial bombings that killed 257 people and injured over 1,100.

Dec 2001: Parliament Attack in New Delhi.

Aug 2003: Blasts in taxis outside Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazar in Mumbai and that killed 52 and injured over 100.

Oct 2005: Three bomb blasts in Delhi markets a day before Diwali killed 62 people.

Jul  2006: Mumbai train bombings that killed over 200 and injured more than 700 people.

May 2007: Bomb blast at Mecca mosque in Hyderabad killed 11 people.

May 2008: Eight serial blasts in a span of 12 minutes killed 65 and injured 150 people in Jaipur.

Jul   2008: Serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad killed 30 people and injuring over 100.

Sep 2008: Malegaon blasts killed six and injured 70 people.

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