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Bomb Blast in the world in March 09

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	Mar 01	1	6	A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives near a passing U.S convoy in eastern Afghanistan. No damage occurred to the U.S convoy but the bomber was killed and six civilians, including two children were injured in the blast. Taliban militants are suspected for the blast.

	Mar 02	4	5	A suicide bomber detonanted his explosives at an Islamic Seminary killing four people and injuring at least five others.

	Mar 03	7	9	The Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked by armed gunmen in the streets of Lahore as they headed to a match with the Pakistani national team. Six policemen and the driver were killed and seven players, an umpire and an official were wounded in the ambush. Pakistan interior ministry has stated they are in a "total war" with insurgents but some believe the Tamil Tigers are responsible.

	Mar 03	1	9	Two bombs exploded in Diyala province targeting police patrols. One police officer was killed in the first explosion and his partner was wounded and a second blast injured four more police officers and four civilians.

	Mar 04	0	2	An improvised explosive device exploded at a hostel popular with foreign tourists damaging four rooms and injuring two people. Muslim rebels are suspected in the blast.

	Mar 04	3	2	A roadside bomb detonated in Kandahar province as a Canadian military patrol went by killing three Canadian soldiers and injuring two others.

	Mar 04	4	22	A blast at a restaurant killed four people and injured at least 22 others in Baghdad.

	Mar 05	12	56	In a crowded cattle market sixty miles south of Baghdad in the town of Hilla a massive explosive detonated killing 12 people and injuring 56 others. All dead and injured are reported to be civilians.

	Mar 05	2	7	A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives in northern Mosul killing one Iraqi soldier and injuring seven other people.

	Mar 05	1	2	A Palestinian bulldozer driver rammed into a police car, pushing it down Menachem Begin Expressway and then hit a bus before he was shot. Two officers were wounded. Senior Hamas official Mushir al-Masr said "The operation in Jerusalem was a natural response to aggression against our people."

	Mar 07	7	15	A blast targeting police in Peshawar killed seven people, including five police and injured at least 15 others.

	Mar 07	5	5	A suicide car bomber detonated explosives in front of a mosque run by a militant group that is at odd with the Pakistani militant group that completed the Mumbai attacks killing five people in all and injuring five others.

	Mar 07	2	4	Gunmen opened fire in a military base in Northern Ireland killing two British soldiers and injuring four more people, including two more soldiers. Dissident groups are believed to be behind the attack.

	Mar 07	0	9	Bomb exploded in an alcohol shop in the northern province leaving nine people injured. Islamic militants are being blamed for the bombing.

	Mar 07	2	6	A bomb exploded in an apartment complex killing two people and injuring six others including five kindergarten-aged children and an instructor.

	Mar 08	28	57	Azpeitia. Two small bombs exploded near Azpeitia with minor damage near a television transmitter. No injuries were reported.

	Mar 10	14	41	A suicide bomber occurred at a mosque in a southern town in Sri Lanka killing 14 people and injuring 41 others including a minister.

	Mar 10	4	6	Taliban militants planted a roadside bomb in Helmand province that detonated when a passing van went by resulting in four people being killed and six others injured. All casualties in this incident were civilians.

	Mar 10	33	46	A bomb exploded near Abu Gharib prison killing two journalists, civilians and soldiers. In total 33 people were killed and 46 others injured.

	Mar 15	4	0	A roadside bomb killed 4 US soldiers. The Taliban has claimed responsibility.

	Mar 15	2	14	A suicide bomber targeting a NATO patrol killed 2 Afghan civilians and wounded 14 other civilians.
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	Mar 15	2	0	Two Israeli traffic policeman were killed near the town of Nablus by the Imad Mughniyeh Group, an organization named after the assassination of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyah. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said "nationalistic motive" appeared to have been behind the attack.

	Mar 15	5	4	A suicide bomber detonated his suicide vest near Korean tourists posing for pictures in southern Yemen at Shibam, a UNESCO World Heritage site referred to as the "Manhattan of the Desert". Four South Koreans and a Yemeni tour guide were killed and four other foreigners and an "unspecified number of Yemenis" were wounded.

	Mar 15	2	0	Two British soldiers are killed by a roadside bomb while traveling in an off-road armored vehicle.

	Mar 16	11	29	A Taliban militant in police uniform detonates explosives inside a police headquarters, killing 11 people and wounding 29.

	Mar 16	8	17	A suicide bomber strikes a bus depot, killing 8 and wounding 17

	Mar 18	1	0	A suicide bomber explodes near a convoy carrying South Korean investigators and relatives of the victims of the Shibam attack. No injuries are reported aside from the suicide bomber himself.

	Mar 18	1	12	An explosive detonates, killing 1 person and injuring at least 12 others. The provincial administration believes the blast is not related to upcoming district elections, but by unidentified terrorists.

	Mar 18	0	0	A homemade bomb exploded at the government office of the ruling party in Greece, causing damage but no injuries according to the police. Deputy Kyriakos Mitsotakis was not at the office during the attack.

	Mar 19	4	0	A roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants killed legislator Dad Mohammad Khan and his 3 body guards.

	Mar 19	4	0	A roadside bomb placed by "muslim separatists" killed 4 paramilitary soldiers during a patrol in "insurgent-infested" province of Pattani,

	Mar 20	10	40	Taliban militants in North-western Pakistan fired several rockets at a military camp in Landi Kotal. One of the missiles hit the commercial area resulting in most of the casualties. Ten people in all were killed and at least 40 were wounded.

	Mar 20	4	8	2 roadside bombs killed 4 and wounded 8 Canadian soldiers, and an Afghan interpreter in the hostile Shah Wali Kot district.

	Mar 21	6	4	A car bombing at a police checkpoint kills 5 civilians and 1 police officer. 4 civilians were wounded in the attack.

	Mar 22	0	7	A bomb exploded on an overpass over a busy marketplace wounding seven people. The blast blew out windows of local shops and police officers and soldiers began stepped up patrols of the area.

	Mar 22	2	8	Police conducting a raid in Saadiyah were the target of a booby-trap bomb as a massive explosion rocked the city when one of the houses they entered exploded. Two Iraqi police officers were killed and 8 others wounded.

	Mar 23	25	45	25 civilians are killed after a suicide bomber detonated at a Kurdish funeral. "Dozens" are reported to have been wounded.

	Mar 23	9	22	Nine people were killed and at least another 22 were injured after a roadside bomb planted by a garage where vehicles were getting repaired exploded. The explosion occurred in the early afternoon at peak business for the garage.

	Mar 25	4	7	A bomb exploded in a group of female school girls in the ethnically charged city of Mosul killing for female students and injuring another seven children

	Mar 25	9	7	A bus from the town of Zazimydan was hit by an explosive device that killed seven people, including women and children instantly and caused two more civilians to pass away on the way to hospital. Seven others were injured in the blast.

	Mar 25	0	12	Militants in insurgent racked Assam province tossed a grenade into a busy marketplace in Tezpur, Assam injuring twelve people, two seriously.

	Mar 26	16	40	At a shopping mall in northern Baghdad a car bomb exploded killing sixteen people and injuring at least forty others. The attack in a mostly Shite area was possibly an attempt to reignite tensions between the Shite majority and Sunni minority.

	Mar 26	10	25	A suicide bomber detonated explosives at an inn where people meet for tea and meals. Ten people were killed in the attack and another twenty-five were injured.

	Mar 26	0	0	a bomb explodes in a businessman chalet suspected to be the work of ETA. No one was killed or injured.

	Mar 27	48	80	A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Pakistan where 250 people had gathered for prayers near the Afghanistan border killed 48 people and injured at least 80 people. The death toll will likely rise as more people believed trapped in the rubble or will die from their injuries.

	Mar 27	0	6	Six Thai soldiers were injured in an explosion in the southern Thailand province of Yala. Militants opened fire on the patrol after the explosion but no casualties occurred in the firefight.

	Mar 30	9	8	A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at a local government office resulting in the death of nine people and the injuring of eight people.

	Mar 30	12	90	Militants believed to be trained by the same organization that committed the Mumbai attacks in November 2008 and the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore on March 3, 2009 attacked a police academy with bombs and gunfire. In total seven attackers, heavily armed attacked the police academy resulting in a massive eight hour gun battle that left 12 dead and at least 90 injured. Four of the dead were attackers and three were captured.

	Mar 31	8	21	A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police station in the ethnically volatile city of Mosul where Al Qaeda strikes regularly, and tensions are simmering between Arab and Kurdish factions. In the blast eight people were killed, including the bomber and four police officers and seventeen others were wounded.

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