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Indian Airlines Flight 113 was a flight operating from Mumbai to Ahmedabad that crashed on its final approach to Ahmedabad Airport on 19 October 1988, killing 133 of the 135 people on board. [ 1 ] The crash was the deadliest crash in the history of Indian Airlines and it remains as the fourth-deadliest aircraft accident in the history of India .
On 26 September activist Umesh Patel from Rajkot committed suicide in support of the agitation; [3] the state Government ordered the inquiry in the case. [116] The Sardar Patel Seva Charitable Trust, a Patidar doctors' group from Gujarat and abroad, announced financial help of Rs 1 crore to kin of each person who died in the agitation. [117]
The Sindhi Market and Bhanderi Pole areas of Ahmedabad were also reportedly attacked by mobs. [98] India Today reported on 20 May 2002 that there were sporadic attacks on Hindus in Ahmedabad. On 5 May, Muslim rioters attacked Bhilwas locality in the Shah Alam area. [99]
The highway is dotted with Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service (AMTS) bus stops, which connect the highway with the interior of the city. AMTS has sldo started a feeder air conditioning bus service in association with Airports Authority of India, connecting Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport with the city, with its last stop at Karnavati Club on the Sarkhej–Gandhinagar Highway.
A blast occurred at Sahil Enterprise, a chemical factory on Piplaj road in Pirana, Ahmedabad at 11:22 am IST. Kanika Texo Fab, a textile facility next to the factory, had around 30 people working when the blast occurred. The building collapsed and several people died and others injured due to the fallen debris.
On 19 October, Majid Patel was arrested by the Bharuch local police, after which the Ahmedabad DCB took him into custody. On 19 July 2009, a suspected LeT operative allegedly involved in the Akshardham attack, Shaukatullah Ghauri, was arrested by a counter-intelligence cell in Hyderabad.
The violence that occurred in 1986 was made more severe by a desire for revenge across communities in Ahmedabad, driven by the incidents of the previous year. [38] Soon after the shutdown on 12 July, Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram flew into the city, and soon after 54 companies of security forces, including the Border Security Force and ...
The 2008 Ahmedabad bombings were a series of 21 bomb blasts that hit Ahmedabad, India, on 26 July 2008, within a span of 70 minutes. Fifty-six people were killed and over 200 people were injured. [3] [4] Ahmedabad is the cultural and commercial heart of Gujarat state and a large part of western India.