How a mosquito saved Mumbai from serial blasts

Updated On: 08 February, 2014 07:26 AM IST | | Vinay Dalvi

<p>Yasin Bhatkal reveals that while he had planned a terror attack on the scale of the ‘93 blasts, one of his associates contracted malaria in the eleventh hour, forcing him to change his plans</p>

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How a mosquito saved Mumbai from serial blasts

While many families in the city are still suffering in the aftermath of the triple blasts that shook Mumbai on the evening of July 13, 2011, one of the terrorists accused in the case has made the chilling revelation that the operation was in fact a failure, and had originally been planned on a far greater scale, to echo the 13 serial blasts of 1993 that claimed 350 lives. And what came between the terrorists and their mission, and saved the city from a bigger bloodbath, was a humble, but lethal mosquito.

A poster issued by the ATS shows Yasin Bhatkal (left), who is in custody of the ATS, and Waqas (right). File pic