Streets littered with bodies as explosions wreak havoc in city

MUMBAI’S most famous landmark overlooking the Arabian Sea was yesterday littered with blood, shattered glass and mangled car parts.

Throngs of tourists and trinket-sellers spending a leisurely afternoon outside the Gateway of India arch scurried for cover as a taxi in the parking lot blew apart, smashing windows across the street at the prestigious Taj Mahal Hotel.

Seven minutes later, another taxi exploded outside one of the city’s leading Hindu temples, inside Mumbai’s densely populated old city, demolishing a ramshackle shop selling fruit juice.