7 blasts rock Bangalore; two killed, 70 wounded

It has been more hurting as the news is coming...

The blast has once again proven that we and our government need to work out something together... these kinds of activities leave us in great despair but time to react and let the terrorist know that we are not going to be any inch down to fight them back... they need not be happy on their ill deed that happened today... strong measures need to be taken if there is a time to do it ... its now only...

According to Bangalore Police Commissioner, Shankar Bidari, seven blasts rocked Bangalore.

The blasts took place at the Madiwala bus depot, Mysore road, Adugudi, Adugudi, Koramangla, Vittal Mallaya road, Langford Town and Richmond Town. The blasts took place within a span of 60 minutes. (Map: Bangalore blasts sites)

"In all these cases they have created the blast using timer devices," Bangalore Commissioner of Police Shankar Bidari told reporters at the site of one of the blasts.

"Explosives have also been used, in quantity equal to one or two grenades."

The police sources also said that these terror attacks bear the hallmarks of Bangladesh outfit HuJi.

Some IT firms, as well as schools, colleges, malls and cinemas closed after news of the blasts broke. Phone lines were jammed.

"I was on my way to office when we heard a noise," witness Arun Daniel told a news channel. "It sounded like a cracker. The traffic was blocked, everyone was running around. It was not a severe blast."

A TV channel showed a small shopping stall in Bangalore with broken windows and its concrete floors broken in pieces. Rubble littered another site.

M R Pujar, additional police commissioner for Bangalore said "crude explosives" had been used. "There were seven low-intensity explosions," he said. "Some of them were in crowded areas."

Bomb disposal squads have reached the blasts sites.

According to IB sources, SIMI and LeT may be behind the Bangalore blasts and they could be retaliatory in nature.

Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta has said that, "we are in the initial stages of the investigation. We are in constant touch with the state government. We hope to have a detailed report by evening.

The injured have been admitted to the St Johns Hospital in Bangalore.

As I read it in TimesOf India

Major breakthrough in Bangalore blast case

The Karnataka government on Wednesday claimed a major breakthrough in identifying the gang behind the bomb blasts that rocked churches at three places in the state, including Bangalore during the last one month.

State Home Minister Mallikharjun Kharge disclosed in Bangalore that the suspected gang belonged to a sect called Deendar Channabasaveshwara Siddiqui, but declined to elaborate on its whereabouts as the credentials of the organisation were being investigated by the Corps of Detectives and the state police.

"Investigations so far have revealed that the blasts in Karnataka as well as in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh were found to be the handiwork of this gang. Identical explosives were used in all the cases, except in the Hubli church," Kharge claimed. The explosives had gelatine detonators fitted with a timer device.

Asked whether the police was able to establish the sect's links with Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence, Kharge replied in the negative. "Raids and all-out searches are on to trace the origins of the sect and its antecedents," the minister asserted.

Meanwhile, the city police have formally arrested Ibrahim, the sole survivor of Sunday night's van explosion that took place an hour before a crude bomb blast rocked the St Peter's church in a city suburb. His two accomplices, Siddique and Zakir, died in the blast.

Ibrahim, who sustained serious injuries in the incident, is undergoing treatment at a city hospital. The police had informed him of his arrest in the wake of incriminating material found in his house, which was raided by the CoD earlier in the day.

The raid revealed that Ibrahim is employed as an accountant with a private firm. A personal computer, some books and pamphlets were seized. The CoD found files containing anti-Christian literature in the PC.

In a related development, state Chief Minister S M Krishna and AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu exchanged notes on the ongoing investigation into the spate of bomb blasts in churches, which have shaken the Christian community. As in Karnataka, there were three attacks on churches in AP.

Krishna sought the help of the Andhra police in pursuing leads on the antecedents of Ibrahim, whose family hails from Vijayawada. Following a tip-off from the state police, the Andhra police raided several places in Vijayawada.

Krishna also spoke to Union Home Minister L K Advani on Wednesday morning. "He briefed Advani on the ongoing investigations," said a senior official. The Chief Minister is leaving for Delhi on Thursday to appraise the Centre as well as the Congress high command of the ruling Congress, as Party President Sonia Gandhi had taken a serious note of the attacks on churches in Karnataka of late.

As read in Fakir chands article on rediff...

5 dead, 50 injured in ISKCON temple bomb blast

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Imphal: At least five people were killed and 50 others, including five American and three French nationals, injured when a powerful bomb exploded in the complex of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) on Wednesday evening when the shrine was teeming with Janmasthami devotees.

The toll might go up because some of those who suffered injuries were in critical condition, sources in the Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital said.

Hospital sources said three French and five American nationals were among those who sustained splinter injuries in the blast, which took place at around 7 p.m. Earlier reports had spoken about injury to only one foreigner.

Several important persons, including chief priest of the ISKCON'S Damodar Das, were among those who were hit by splinters of the bomb, which was reportedly hurled at the Tulihal airport area in Imphal West district of Manipur by some unidentified people.

No individual or organisation has claimed responsibility for the explosions, official sources said.

Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh visited the hospital and strongly condemned the incident.

Official sources said an investigation would be ordered to find out how insurgents or militants infiltrated the state capital complex in spite of heavy security deployment.

The spot where the bomb exploded falls under high security zone in the state capital, sources said, adding the area was also under the surveillance of security forces...


One woman has been reportedly killed and about 15 injured in six blasts that rocked the southern city of Bangalore today (July 25). The first blast took place at around 1:30 pm at the Madivala checkpost in the city, while the second blast has been reported from Mysore road.

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