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Serial blasts rocks Bangalore; one killed
Bangalore (Karnataka) Jul 25 (PTI) Terror struck the Information Technology capital Friday with at least six low intensity serial blasts rocking the southern city leaving onedead and several injured.
The crude bombs, concealed near refugee camps and roadside stuffed with nuts and bolts, exploded during the busy lunch hour at Adugodi, Madivala, Nayandahalli, Pantharapalyaand Vittal Mallya Road.
One woman was killed and at least six injured in the serial blasts which took place within a span of 15 minutes from 1:30 PM local time, Bangalore Police Commissioner ShankarBidri told reporters.
He said among the injured, condition of one was statedto be serious.
"In all the blasts, low intensity time devices were used. They want to cause damage to human lives. Explosiveswere used in quantity equal to one to two grenades," he said.
While no one has claimed responsibility so far for the blasts, sources in the Union Home Ministry suspected Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba along with the local support of Students Islamic Movement of India (S.I.M.I.), a bannedradical organisation, to be behind the attacks.
Police Commissioner Shankar Bidri termed it as an "actof miscreants" trying to disturb peace in Bangalore.
"We are conducting investigation into the blasts. Bombdisposal squads and forensic experts have reached the spot.
Bangalore Police is on high alert," Birdi said.
The serial blasts comes in less than two years after the attack at Indian Institute of Sciences in which an Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) professor M.C. Puri fellvictim to terrorists.
In the national capital of New Delhi, Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta spoke to the state chief secretary and sought a detailed report about the incident. PTI ACB KNO
The crude bombs, concealed near refugee camps and roadside stuffed with nuts and bolts, exploded during the busy lunch hour at Adugodi, Madivala, Nayandahalli, Pantharapalyaand Vittal Mallya Road.
One woman was killed and at least six injured in the serial blasts which took place within a span of 15 minutes from 1:30 PM local time, Bangalore Police Commissioner ShankarBidri told reporters.
He said among the injured, condition of one was statedto be serious.
"In all the blasts, low intensity time devices were used. They want to cause damage to human lives. Explosiveswere used in quantity equal to one to two grenades," he said.
While no one has claimed responsibility so far for the blasts, sources in the Union Home Ministry suspected Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba along with the local support of Students Islamic Movement of India (S.I.M.I.), a bannedradical organisation, to be behind the attacks.
Police Commissioner Shankar Bidri termed it as an "actof miscreants" trying to disturb peace in Bangalore.
"We are conducting investigation into the blasts. Bombdisposal squads and forensic experts have reached the spot.
Bangalore Police is on high alert," Birdi said.
The serial blasts comes in less than two years after the attack at Indian Institute of Sciences in which an Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) professor M.C. Puri fellvictim to terrorists.
In the national capital of New Delhi, Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta spoke to the state chief secretary and sought a detailed report about the incident. PTI ACB KNO
