Convicted Financier Of Bombings In Bombay Executed In Prison
July 30 2015
The man seen as the driving force behind the 1993 Bombay (Mumbai) bombings that killed more than 250 has been executed, reports the New York Times.
Yakub Memon was hanged early Thursday at a prison in Nagpur in India's western state of Maharashtra, hours after India's Supreme Court rejected a final appeal, reported the BBC.
The attacks in March 1993 targeted a dozen sites, including the Bombay Stock Exchange, the offices of Air India and a luxury hotel. The attacks killed 257...
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