Posted on 07/26/2008 11:30:55 AM PDT by nuconvert
Sixteen bombs hit India's Ahmedabad, 18 killed
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - At least 16 small bombs exploded in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday, killing at least 18 people and wounding 110, a day after another set of blasts in the country's IT hub, officials said.
On Friday, eight bombs exploded in quick succession in the southern information technology city of Bangalore, killing at least one person and wounding six others.
Saturday's blasts were in Ahmedabad's crowded old city dominated by its Muslim community. One was in a metal tiffin box, used to carry food, another apparently left on a bicycle.
"This has been done by some terrorist group which wants to destabilize the country," the central government's junior home minister Shriprakash Jaiswal told the Sahara news channel.
There were two separate series of bombings, the first near busy market places. A second quick succession of bombs went off 20 to 25 minutes later around a hospital, where several people died, police said.
"At least six people died from the blast in the hospital," Gujarat home minister Amit Shah said.
One television channel showed a bus with its side blown up, shattered windows and the roof half-destroyed. Another showed a dead dog lying beside a blown-up bicycle.
"The bus had just started when the blast happened," P. K Pathak, a retired insurance official who was traveling in nearby bus, told Reuters.
"Many people standing on the exit door fell down. There was fire and smoke all over. We got down from our bus and rushed to help them."
Ahmedabad is the main city in the communally sensitive and relatively wealthy western state of Gujarat, scene of deadly riots in 2002 in which 2,500 people are thought to have died, most of them Muslims killed by rampaging Hindu mobs.
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Another report says 29 people killed and at least 88 wounded
Reuters has this all dicked up.
Thanks for the update!
The older thread was here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051720/posts
Breaking: Seven bombs hit Ahmedabad, two killed (back-to-back bombing)
http://www.hindustantimes.com/PhotoGallery/Photos_Storypage.aspx?category=SerialblastsrockAhmedabad
No more than 2 dead
8 bombs max
Bombings in Bangalore yesterday killed 2 and more than a dozen wounded.
More -
Bangalore police find eighth bomb
An unexploded bomb has been found near a shopping centre, a day after seven blasts killed two people in the city.
The bomb - close to the scene of two of the explosions - was defused by police outside the Forum Mall.
An investigation has been launched into the explosions, but so far no-one has claimed responsibility for them.
India’s home ministry said it suspected “a small militant group”, while police said the banned Students Islamic Movement of India was a suspect.
“Special squads have been formed to find out who is behind the blasts. We have not got any conclusive leads yet,” Bangalore’s additional commissioner of police MR Pujar told Reuters.
Indian broadcaster NDTV reported that police had blocked traffic to the road where the eighth bomb was found and were searching the area.
According to NDTV, a man in his 20s had been seen placing a bucket with the bomb. Eyewitnesses had described him and an artist’s sketch was being made, a police officer was quoted as saying.
Police said Friday’s serial blasts bore similarities to an explosion which occurred at a courthouse in Hubli, a city near Bangalore, in May. No-one was wounded in that blast.
Suspected Muslim militants there are being tried on charges of planning attacks in Karnataka state, of which Bangalore is the capital.
Bangalore is the IT hub of India, and also has a large outsourcing industry. Many firms have said they have increased security on their premises.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7526810.stm
Time for India to take out the trash.
Seems the Media has the two events muddled.
This is very confusing.
The low-intensity explosions occurred at eight areas of Maninagar, Isanpur, Narol circle, Bapunagar, Hatkeshwar and Sarangpur bridge, Sarkej and Odhav and created a wave of panic.
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The explosion in the sensitive Sarkej area occurred in a CNG bus.
Some of the bombs were believed to have been placed in cycles eerily similar to the Jaipur blasts on May 13 in which 65 persons died. A couple of bombs were reported to have been placed in tiffin boxes in a modus operandi similar to the explosions outside a Lucknow court last year.
President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the blasts and appealed for calm.
Both these dicks cant do anything else other than to condemn these blasts! neither will they allow the police to have a free hand in investigating the scum who caused this nor will they pass anti-terrorist law POTA! because then it would be politically incorrect and it would also mean the police are targeting some very peaceful people belonging to the a very peaceful religion!
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