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The MV Dara, a 120-meter, 5,000-ton ship was a familiar sight in Dubai and around the Gulf. (Shutterstock)

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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 · 08 April 2021

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