On the fateful day of February 27 2002, four coaches of the Sabarmati Express returning from Ayodhya were torched by a mob near Godhra, resulting in the deaths of 58 people including 25 children.
The violence that began following the incident in Godhra, resulted in the deaths of 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus but even among all those incidents the massacre at Gulbarg society in Ahmedabad remains one of the worst.