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Bombing of RSS office in Chennai

· Chetpet, Chennai

A bomb destroyed the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh office in Chetpet, Chennai, killing several people.

On 8 August 1993 a powerful bomb exploded at the head office of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Chennai. The building was destroyed and several people were killed. Investigators linked the attack to Islamist militants, and the Al Ummah group was later associated with it. It was one of the first major communal bomb attacks in Tamil Nadu and foreshadowed the violence in Coimbatore later in the decade.

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