2010 Pune bombing
| 2010 Pune bombing | |
|---|---|
Pune Pune | |
| Location | 18°32′23″N 73°53′14″E / 18.53972°N 73.88722°E Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| Date | 13 February 2010 19:15 IST (UTC+5:30) |
Attack type | Bombing, terrorist attack |
| Weapon | Improvised explosive device |
| Deaths | 18 |
| Injured | 54+ |
| Perpetrators | |
On 13 February 2010 at approximately 19:15 Indian Standard Time, a bomb exploded at a German bakery in the Indian city of Pune, Maharashtra. The blast killed 18 people, including an Italian woman, two Sudanese students and two Iranian students, and injured at least 60 more.
The German bakery is located near the local Jewish Chabad House and the Osho International Meditation Resort in Koregaon Park, Pune. Both the ashram and the bakery are frequented by foreigners; the bakery was filled with tourists and locals at the time of the attack.
Two Islamist groups, Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Indian Mujahideen (Students' Islamic Movement of India), claimed responsibility for the bombing under pseudonymous names. According to Indian government agencies, the attack could have been part of a project by Lashkar-e-Taiba to use the Indian Mujahideen in what is called the "Karachi Project". David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani−American terrorist who co-plotted the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has been accused of involvement in the project and bombing.