Scores of people have been killed in at least seven near-simultaneous bombs on trains in the Indian financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), police say.
The city's police Chief AN Roy said on Indian TV as many as 100 people were feared killed and more than 250 hurt.
The first explosion went off at about 1830 local time (1300 GMT), during the peak of the evening rush hour in the suburbs on the busy Western Railway.
There have been a number of bomb attacks in Mumbai in recent years.
The city and the capital Delhi have been put on high alert, and Mumbai's entire rail network has been shut down.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed for calm and described the incidents as a "shocking and cowardly attempt to spread a feeling of hatred".
Pakistani leaders also condemned the blasts as a "despicable act of terrorism".
Bodies by tracks
Police said the blasts took place at Borivili, Khar, Jogeshwari, Matunga and Mira Road areas, with most on moving trains.
Reports described people jumping from trains and bodies lying by the tracks.
Television images show dazed and blood-splattered commuters being carried by fellow passengers to waiting ambulances, as rescue workers clambered through wreckage to reach victims.
The force of the blasts ripped doors and windows off carriages and scattered luggage and debris.
Clothes, shoes and personal possessions were strewn along the tracks.
A medical student at a hospital in Parel, which has received many of the wounded, told the BBC News website the "floors are filled with bloodstains".
"There were so many [injured people], I couldn't really count," Sunny Jain said.
"There are not enough ambulances and many people are making their own way to the station. They are coming in taxis and by foot."
The city's suburban train system is one of the busiest in the world, carrying more than six million commuters a day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5169332.stm
The city's police Chief AN Roy said on Indian TV as many as 100 people were feared killed and more than 250 hurt.
The first explosion went off at about 1830 local time (1300 GMT), during the peak of the evening rush hour in the suburbs on the busy Western Railway.
There have been a number of bomb attacks in Mumbai in recent years.
The city and the capital Delhi have been put on high alert, and Mumbai's entire rail network has been shut down.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed for calm and described the incidents as a "shocking and cowardly attempt to spread a feeling of hatred".
Pakistani leaders also condemned the blasts as a "despicable act of terrorism".
Bodies by tracks
Police said the blasts took place at Borivili, Khar, Jogeshwari, Matunga and Mira Road areas, with most on moving trains.
Reports described people jumping from trains and bodies lying by the tracks.
Television images show dazed and blood-splattered commuters being carried by fellow passengers to waiting ambulances, as rescue workers clambered through wreckage to reach victims.
The force of the blasts ripped doors and windows off carriages and scattered luggage and debris.
Clothes, shoes and personal possessions were strewn along the tracks.
A medical student at a hospital in Parel, which has received many of the wounded, told the BBC News website the "floors are filled with bloodstains".
"There were so many [injured people], I couldn't really count," Sunny Jain said.
"There are not enough ambulances and many people are making their own way to the station. They are coming in taxis and by foot."
The city's suburban train system is one of the busiest in the world, carrying more than six million commuters a day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5169332.stm
It's much like saying the UK or the USA are Christian countries. According to the holy alter of knowledge, Wikipedia, 80% of Indians are Hindu, so I wasn't far off 
