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BY EMOKE BEBIAK

ANCHOR CHRISTINA HARTMAN

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Three simultaneous blasts rocked Mumbai on Wednesday in an apparent terrorist attack. According to initial reports, at least 13 people died and more than 80 were injured.

The BBC reports -- the bombs went off in three different locations between 7:00 and 7:15 p.m. local time.

And a CNN reporter points out -- the location of the blasts seem to be deliberate.

“If you look at all the three locations in Mumbai, all three of them are very very crowded locations. Extremely crowded locations, it is rush hour around 7 pm in Mumbai, a lot of people coming home from work.”

Not long after the blasts, India’s Home Ministry declared the incident a terrorist attack. No terrorist organization has taken responsibility yet - leading to media speculation over whether the bombing is connected to the 2008 terrorist attack.

In that attack - 164 people died when armed members of a Pakistani militant group overtook Mumbai’s main train station, two luxury hotels and a Jewish cultural center. (Video: CNN)

The New York Times reports Indian authorities had been expecting similar attacks...

“The police in Mumbai have been bracing for a terror attack for months. In December 2010, police said that several men suspected of belonging to the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba entered the country; Indian and American officials say that group carried out the November 2008 attacks.”

But a blogger for TIME points out -- Wednesday’s bombing was nothing like the 2008 attack.

“On its face, this incident looks much more like the serial blasts that hit Mumbai in 2006 and in 1993 than the infamous three-day-long terror attacks of 2008... [that] were conducted by a team of heavily armed commandos on a suicide mission, a very different kind of attack requiring a much greater level of training, planning and logistical sophistication.”

The 1993 and 2006 attacks were linked to an underground crime leader from Mumbai - who has ties to both local and Pakistani Islamist groups.

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