Commodity OnlineBANGALORE: Nine blasts rocked India's tech capital, Bangalore on Friday, killing two persons and injuring dozens.
Low intensity blasts in a span of one hour in six different places shocked India's Silicon Valley this afternoon. Blasts went off at Nayandahalli, Madivala, Adugodi areas on the outskirts of Bangalore. Blasts also rocked the tony areas near Mallya Hospital, Langford Road and Richmond Circle in Bengaluru city. Two blasts were reported in Madivala.
The crude bombs, concealed near refugee camps and the roadside, stuffed with nuts and bolts, exploded during the busy lunch hour at Adugodi, Madivala, Nayandahalli, Pantharapalya and Vittal Mallya Road. Adigoda and Madivala have a thick concentration of IT professionals.
One woman was killed and fourl injured in the serial blasts which took place within a span of 15 minutes from 1:30 pm, Bangalore Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari told reporters.
The woman, who was waiting at a bus shelter in Madivala on the Bengaluru-Hosur road, was killed in the blast and her husband and another person were seriously injured. Bidari said among the injured, the condition of one was stated to be serious.
The first blast took place at Madiwala check post, which incidentally is behind the famous Forum Mall, one of the leading shopping destinations in Bangalore. The second and third blasts took place at Nayandahalli and Adugodi, both on the outskirts of the city.
Police officials said all the bombs had timer devices that were trigerred by mobile phones. The police also said the intention is to scare, not kill.
While no one has claimed responsibility so far for the blasts, sources in the Union Home Ministry suspected Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Tayiba along with the local support of the Students Islamic Movement of India to be behind the attacks.
Bangalore was rocked by a major terrorist attack in December 2005, when extremists opened fire in the famous Indian Institute of Science complex in which a Delhi IIT professor lost his life.
India's Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil condemned today’s blasts in Bangalore.
In a statement he conveyed his sympathies to the affected families and prayed for speedy recovery of those injured in the blasts.
"The Union Home Ministry is in close touch with the Karnataka Government. Such incidents will not deter the Government from pursuing its policy of dealing with anti-national elements in a resolute manner," it said.
