The explosives were kept in a dustbin in Nagarbhavi area, near Mysore Road in Bangalore. No casualty has been reported.
Police Commissioner Shankar Bidri has confirmed the blast. No information yet whether it was a timer device or not.
Security up in Kerala over reports it would be next terror target:
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A security alert has been sounded across Kerala following reports that a television channel in Karnataka had received an e-mail claiming that Kerala could be the next target of terrorists. The Director General of Police has convened a high-level meeting to review the security arrangments in the state. Vigil has been stepped up in cities like Kochi and Kozhikode and more security and intelligence personnel were deployed in bus stops, railway stations and airports, police sources said. Meanwhile, Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said there was no need for panic and the state police was in touch with their counterparts in Karnataka. He urged people to refrain from spreading rumours.
The sequence in which the seven bomb blasts rocked the country’s IT hub:
1.20 pm, Madiwala bus depot.
1.25 pm, Mysore road.
1.40 pm, Adugudi.
2.10 pm, Koramangla.
2.25 pm, Vittal Mallaya road.
2.35 pm, Langford Town.
Richmond Town.
There have been a series of bomb blasts in the Indian city of Bangalore, killing at least one person and wounding more than a dozen others.Local police say timing devices were used to set off the low-yield devices.They say the five blasts occurred within 45 minutes of each other in crowded areas across the city.
At least five bomb blasts have rocked the city of Bangalore, India’s technology hub, killing one person and injuring at least 15 in the latest in a series of attacks on commercial and tourist centres.
Police said that the “low intensity” bombs went off between 2pm and 2.45pm local time today at different points in a nine-mile radius across the capital of the southern state of Karnataka.
Bangalore is the centre of India’s software outsourcing industry and is home to around 1,500 top firms, including Infosys, Wipro and the Indian operations of Microsoft, Intel and IBM.
One blast was in the business district, while the others were in the southern suburbs. The city contains six million people, and is one of India’s most cosmopolitan and religiously diverse.
Indian television showed police with sniffer dogs sifting through the wreckage of a small shopping stall, whose windows and concrete floors were smashed by one of the explosions.
"I was on my way to the office when we heard a noise," Arun Daniel, a witness, told the CNN-IBN TV channel. "It sounded like a cracker. The traffic was blocked, everyone was running around. It was not a severe blast."
Some IT firms, as well as schools, colleges and cinemas, closed after the blasts. Police said that no one had claimed responsibility for the attack.
India has suffered a wave of bombings in the past decade, most of which have been blamed on Islamic militant groups with links to either Pakistan or Bangladesh.
Bangalore Commissioner of Police Shankar Bidari said the devices had all been set off with timers. "Explosives have also been used, in quantity equal to one or two grenades," he added
Bangalore, known as India's Silicon Valley, is one of the world's most prominent centres for software development and is also the capital of its outsourcing industry.
Also nicknamed the "world's back office", it is home to more than 1,500 top firms, including India's Infosys Technologies and Wipro and offices of global firms such as Microsoft Corp and Intel Corp. Some IT firms, as well as schools, colleges 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 said. "It sounded like a cracker. The traffic was blocked, everyone was running around. It was not a severe blast." Local TV showed a small shopping stall in Bangalore with broken windows and its concrete floors broken in pieces. Rubble littered another site.
There are ~8 bomb blasts reported so far. Since telco networks are jammed, please use this twitter id to share your status (so that your near and dear ones can know your well being).Or else, use spy to track the bangalore news across social media.
Word of advice: if you are in your office, stay there. Please do not add to the traffic jam/chaos by leaving for home right now!
So over 7 blast between 1:20 to 2:35 …. !!
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Other Blasts on Friday:
March 12, 1993: Mumbai bombings were a series of thirteen bomb explosions that took place in Mumbai). The single-day attacks resulted in up to 250 civilian fatalities and 700 injuries.
April 14, 2006: Twin blasts took place in Delhi’s Jama Masjid injuring at least 13 people on Friday evening at around 1730 hrs IST.
September 8, 2006: 31 killed, 297 injured in Friday’s twin bomb blast in Malegaon.
November 23, 2007: Multiple blasts in Faizabad, Varanasi, Lucknow within five minutes of each other killing at least 12 people in Uttar Pradesh.
May 18, 2007: Eleven people were killed and more than 50 others injured in a bomb explosion inside Mecca Mosque located near the historic Charminar in Hyderabad.
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