TERRORISM:: Pune Bakery Blast Kills 8 In India !!

A bomb detonated in a crowded bakery popular with foreigners in western India killing nine people and wounding 57, officials said Sunday, the first terrorist attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai massacre.
The blast Saturday in the city of Pune, 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of Mumbai, threatened to damage new efforts to reduce tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, with Hindu nationalist leaders placing blame for the attack on India's Muslim neighbor.
"It was a bomb lying in an unattended bag" Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told reporters Sunday after visiting the bakery and the wounded in hospitals.
Six people died at the scene and three later succumbed to injuries at hospitals, he said. Of the 57 wounded, 19 were released from medical facilities.
Chidambaram said forensic experts were trying to determine what explosives were used and how the bomb was triggered.
"All the information available to us at the moment points to a plot to explode a device in a place that is frequented by foreigners as well as Indians," Chidambaram said.
Security forces were put on high alert Sunday at airports, train stations and markets across the country.


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