Click to play videoNew Delhi: The seven low intensity blasts that rocked Bangalore on Friday afternoon have once again brought the South into focus and this time it is for being a terror destination.
Terror first visited to south India ten-years ago during the run up to the General Elections.
The target was Coimbatore. Twelve blasts rocked the city and among the targets were a rally that BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani was to address barely minutes later. Advani escaped the attack allegedly targeted at him but 81 others were killed and 153 injured in the blasts.
In December 28, 2005, terror struck again and this time it was outside the country's prestigious Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Unidentified gunmen fire indiscriminately, killing an IIT professor and injuring four scientists.
On May 18, 2007, a powerful bomb exploded at the historic Mecca Masjid in the Charminar area of Hyderabad during the Friday prayers. Thirteen were killed and 40 injured in the blast.
Another blast in Hyderabad was in Aug 25, 2007, when two powerful explosions took place, one at a crowded park and another at a popular eating joint, left 42 people dead and about 50 injured.
It seems that terror is no more distant threat, but a present reality for people in south India.
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