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Four Iranians among injured in last night Pune blast
While confirming none of the nine persons killed in Saturday night Pune blast were foreigners, Union Home Secretary said in New Delhi Sunday that among the injured, four are Iranians, two Sudanese, one Taiwanese, one German and two Nepalese.
"None of the bodies of the nine killed has been identified yet as that of a foreigner. Out of the nine, three bodies have been identified which are of Indians and others' identification process is still going on," Pillai told reporters.
After the blast took place at a German bakery in Pune last night, it was reported that one among the dead was a foreigner.
Pillai said among the injured, four are Iranians, two Sudanese, one Taiwanese, one German and two Nepalese.
He said the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad is probing the incident and the National Investigation Agency would assist them.
Meanwhile, dismissing "intelligence failure" in the Pune blast, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Sunday that the terrorists have hit a "soft target" like the German bakery which is frequented by foreigners and Indians alike.
He maintained that the "hard targets" like the Osho Ashram and the Jewish Chabad House located near the bakery had been surveyed by US Lashker-e-Taiba suspect David Headley during his visit to India and the area was "in the radar" of terrorists for some time.
"But apart from hard targets, there are soft targets... All these (the German bakery where the blast took place Saturday and an Italian restaurant nearby) are soft targets where foreigners and Indians congregate especially during the peak hours," he told reporters in Pune after visiting local hospitals to meet the injured in the terror attack.
The home minister said the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad has taken over the case and constituted teams to investigate the blast.
The Home Ministry has issued an alert across the country asking people not to open any unattended object and to inform the police if they find any suspicious object.
The ministry had issued an advisory to Maharashtra government informing it that the Osho Ashram was one of the sites surveyed by Headley.
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