Mumbai, July 14 (IANS) Following are some key remarks by Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday on the terror attack after visiting the sites with Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan:


- 17 people dead, 131 injured and taken to hospital

- Of the injured, 26 discharged, 82 stable, 23 serious

- Injured were quickly taken to 13 hospitals in 21 ambulances

- No intelligence inputs with central or state agencies

- But cannot call it intelligence failure

- It was a coordinated act, suspects acted clandestinely

- Blasts were not triggered remotely

- Ammonium nitrate was used with timers

- Blast at Dadar of low intensity

- Blasts at Zaveri Bazaar, Opera House of medium-to-high intensity

- Do not speculate on suspects

- Maharashtra government not to proceed with pre-suppositions

- Media also asked to not to speculate, look at one particular direction

- Teams from New Delhi, Mumbai and Pune at work

- Nature of explosive, timer mechanism, container being probed

- Angle that Indo-Pakistan talks are due will be kept in mind

- Not an attack on India's commercial capital

- India will continue to grow and prosper

- Will explore link with arrest of Indian Mujahideen operators last week

- Will also explore link with arrest of Maoists last week

- This was first major terror attack in Mumbai in 31 months

- Mumbai has been reasonably secure with capacity to deal with threats

- Mumbai police has successfully foiled a large number of terror threats.