Nearly 7,000 people have died since 2004: MHA

NEW DELHI: Nearly 7,000 people have lost their lives during the UPA government's rule since 2004 in over 25,000 incidents, according to latest data available with the Union Home Ministry.

While the first year of the UPA government saw 6,029 incidents that claimed 1,721 lives, the number of incidents fell as also the number of casualties from the next year onwards.

In 2005, there were 5,709 incidents in which 1,598 people died while in 2006 there were 5,240 attacks that left 1,352 people dead.

In the following year, 4,907 incidents occurred in which 1,215 people lost their lives.

This year till September one, 3,157 incidents took place in which 760 people died.

The figures for the current year exclude the Mumbai terror attacks in which nearly 200 people have died.

Major terror strikes during the UPA period includes the Hyderabad blasts that claimed over 40 lives, Samjhauta Express explosion in which 68 people died and Malegaon and serial train attacks in Mumbai that left over 230 dead, besides the latest Mumbai attacks.

During the NDA period, which saw 36,259 incidents and 11,714 deaths, the major attacks were on Parliament House, Akshardham temple and terror strikes at an army camp in Jammu besides storming of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly.