Picture from a happier time of the sniffer dogs out with their handlers at a fair
It was a regular day in Mumbai on Wednesday until work ended and terrorists struck. In a city still healing from the wounds inflicted on it in 2008 by terrorist attacks killing 166 people the three bombs that went off during rush hour traffic had people in a complete panic. Twenty-one people were killed when three separate bombs went off in the business district of the city which is the financial capital of India.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram said at a news conference that the city had been put on high alert and that officials believed the blasts were “a coordinated attack by terrorists.” They are still unsure if the militants were homegrown or foreign-based or what their motive was exactly. To help restore order and do what they can to stop any further attacks from happening. All the sniffer dogs in the region were out in full force by the time night had set in sniffing all cars coming and going out of the city.
Railway Protection Force (RPF) policemen with a sniffer dog check belongings of passengers at the railway station after blasts in Mumbai, in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. (AP Photo)
The Bombay Stock Exchange has raised security in and around the Jeejeebhoy Towers where it is located. A dog squad and two platoons of police are always on guard at the exchange, an additional team of commandos has been deployed in order to cordon off the premises. “We have taken some precautionary measures as part of which sniffer dogs were sent in and our own security personnel thoroughly searched the BSE building,” said the exchange spokesperson.
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