UPDATED ON:
Friday, July 25, 2008
18:08 Mecca time, 15:08 GMT
News CENTRAL/S. ASIA
Series of blasts hit Bangalore
Police said evidence suggested that some blasts were caused by gelatin stick
bombs [AFP]
At
least seven explosions in the Indian city of Bangalore have killed two
people and wounded up to a dozen others, according to police.
The
blasts, some of which were believed to have been caused by gelatin
stick bombs, all went off within 45 minutes of each other on Friday
afternoon. "A
woman and a man have died and around a dozen others received shrapnel
injuries in the blasts," Shankar Bidri, the Bangalore police
commissioner, said on Friday.
"In all these cases they have
created the blast using timer devices. Explosives have also been used,
in quantity equal to one or two grenades."
No one
has claimed responsibility for the attacks. However, police said that
attacks bore some resemblance to the Bangladeshi group Harkat-ul-Jihad
al-Islami, which wants the secession of the disputed Himalayan region
of Kashmir.
Al Jazeera's Todd Baer, reporting from Delhi, said all schools and commerical
complexes in Bangalore have been closed.
"The city has quite literally been paralysed," he said.
Multiple blasts
Two blasts occurred close to police facilities while another bomb went off in a
city-centre business district.
The fourth explosion targeted the Koramangla district, where several computer
software firms are located.
The
other blasts occurred in the southern suburbs of Bangalore,
a religiously mixed city, which is the capital of Karnataka state.
Madhukar Gupta, the Indian home secretary, said the blasts occurred within a
radius of 10 to 15km.
A.
Raghuveer, the assistant police commissioner, said: "Some of the blasts
are low intensity using gelatin [gelignite explosive] sticks".
Television footage showed bomb squads scouring the areas with sniffer dogs.
Some of the sites were covered with shattered glass.
Ramesh, a software engineer, told the AFP news agency that he was hit by flying
shrapnel as he was riding his motorcycle.
"We saw smoke and dust and then some object pierced my leg," he said.
India has been struck by bombings in recent years, with targets ranging from
mosques and Hindu temples to trains.
Bangalore is home to more than six million people and some 1,500 domestic and
foreign firms.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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