India executes plotter of 1993 Mumbai attacks

Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing India's deadliest terrorist attack has been executed.It came after the Supreme Court threw out a final appeal for clemency . There was tight security at the prison in the state of Maharashtra where the sentence was carried out.
257 people died in March 1993 in a series of blasts in Mumbai, then known as Bombay.They were allegedly to avenge the killing of Muslims in riots a few months earlier.Ten other people were convicted but escaped the death penalty.The two alleged masterminds remain in hiding.
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