7 Bomb Blasts in Bangalore kill 1 Injure Many
Seven bomb blasts rocked the IT Capital today. The blasts made Bangalore on a stand-still today. The locations include Adugudi, Nayandahalli, Ashok Nagar, Koramangala, Madiwala bus stand, Vittal Malya Road. The blast happend subsequently within few minutes in 1:30 afternoon.
One woman and four others have been killed in the bangalore bomb blast and several injured. Other places include Mallya hospital, Langford Road and Richmond Circle in Bangalore city. Two blasts are reported to be in Madivala.
The first blast has been reported to have taken place near Madiwala check post. This is located close to Forum Mall, an important shopping center where crowds of youngsters hang out usually on a friday evening. The second bangalore blast took place in Nayandahalli which connects Mysore Road. This has a huge number of traffic usually. Nayandhalli has been followed by Adugodi blast.
The bombs are reported to have been made using gelatin sticks. Reports state that the blasts are of low intensity as they were made similar to ones used in coal mines. The bombs had timer devices and were triggered using mobile phones.
The injured have been admitted in St. Johns Hospital in bangalore. Bangalore City Police Commissioner Shankar Bidri has reqested bangalorians not to panic and to carry on with their normal activities. However, people have restrained from going out and have stayed back in their offices or at home.
Well the IT capital, Bangalore is not new to terrorism. There has been many incidents in the software capital of India. The recent one being a terrorist attack in IISc campus, bangalore.
On october 2007,, police arrested two pakistani nationals in Mysore for attacking the Karnataka Secretariat, Vidhan Soudha.
South India has not been spared from bomb blasts. Coimbatore in 1998 faced a series of bomb blasts followed by Hyderabad with twin bomb blasts in Mecca Masjid.
Further news awaiting on Bangalore Bomb Blasts.