The 1998 Coimbatore bombings occurred on Saturday, February 14 1998, in the city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. 46 persons - 35 men, 10 women and one child - were killed and over 200 injured in 13 bomb attacks in 11 places , all of them within a 12km radius. These car bombs were suspected to be the work of Muslim fundamentalist groups. Coimbatore (Tamil: கோயம்புத்தூர்), also known as Kovai, is one of the major industrial cities in South India. ... Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ...

The first of the serial bombs exploded at 3.50 p.m. on Shanmugham Road in R.S. Puram, hardly 100 metres from the venue of an election meeting that was to be addressed by Bharatiya Janata Party president L.K. Advani. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), literally meaning Indian Peoples Party, created in 1980, is one of the two major national political parties in India. ... Lal Krishna Advani (born November 8, 1927/1929, Karachi) is an Indian politician. ...

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