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Updated: Apr 26, 2019 10:02 IST

Abdul Gani Turk, who was among those convicted of their role in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, died at the government hospital here on Thursday.

Nagpur Central Jail superintendent, Rani Bhonsale, said Turk’s situation suddenly deteriorated and he was immediately rushed to the hospital. “A post mortem will be conducted at the hospital tomorrow,’’ she said. “We have informed the family members of Turk about his death at the hospital.”

Turk was brought to Nagpur central jail in 2012.Turk was convicted for planting the bomb at Mumbai’s Century Bazaar, one of the 12 sites devastated by serial blasts on March 12, 1993. A special TADA court had convicted him for driving a van loaded with RDX from the house of the primary accused, Ibrahim Mushtaq ‘Tiger’ Memon, in Mahim, to Century Bazaar in Worli.

The Century Bazaar blast killed 113 people; at least 257 people were killed in the coordinated attacks across Mumbai. The other blasts took place at the Bombay Stock Exchange, Katha Bazar, Lucky petrol pump near Sena Bhavan, Fishermen’s colony at Mahim Causeway, Air India Building, Hotel Sea Rock, Zaveri Bazaar, Plaza Theatre, Centaur Hotel in Juhu and the Centaur Hotel.