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Six decades on, MV Dara’s bombing off Dubai remains an enduring horror

  • A suitcase bomb explosion aboard the vessel off Dubai killed 238 people, most of them Arabs, Indians and Pakistanis
  • British investigators later concluded that an anti-tank mine caused the blast that destroyed the passenger ship
By Jonathan Gornall ·

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