03-07-2006, 11:26 PM
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Conflicting reports are emerging about the number of blasts. Local police are telling our correpondent Neelanjana Bose that only two blasts have taken place, and that no blast has taken place on a train that had left Lahota Station and travelled 40 kilometres. CNN-IBN correspondent Abhishek Patni however says that the Lahota blast did take place and a railway track has been blown off ... but that there are no casualties. Official sources maintain that three blasts have taken place: one at the Sankatmochan temple, two at the Varanasi Cantt railway station. Besides this four bombs have been defused at the Dashaswamedh Ghat and two live bombs were recovered from a restaurant in Varanasi. The city has been cordoned off.
As of now variable reports are coming in about the death toll. Official sources confirm that seven people have died and around 20 are injured. Unofficial sources say as many as 20 may have died and between 50 and 60 are injured.
The UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav has offered ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh to the relatives of the deceased and Rs 1 lakh to the injured.
<b>Police are speculating that Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were used in the blasts and that remote controls were use to trigger the bombs.</b>
<b>Intelligence officials are suggesting that part of a mixed group of twenty terrorists from groups like Lashkar-e-Tayabba and Jaish-e-Mohammed who crossed over from Nepal may be responsible for these attacks.</b>
<b>A Kashmiri militant was caught in Varanasi a few months ago .. but no action was taken at the time. Intelligence sources have also told SIT chief V K Shashikumar as well as Crime Bureau Chief Shiv Pujan Jha that information about such an attack was conveyed to the state government more than a month ago</b>
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Oh! so whole case is solved, they are pakistani. Give me a break, they should check Azamgarh, Mau etc for culprit they can find lot of home made bomb making factories.
Conflicting reports are emerging about the number of blasts. Local police are telling our correpondent Neelanjana Bose that only two blasts have taken place, and that no blast has taken place on a train that had left Lahota Station and travelled 40 kilometres. CNN-IBN correspondent Abhishek Patni however says that the Lahota blast did take place and a railway track has been blown off ... but that there are no casualties. Official sources maintain that three blasts have taken place: one at the Sankatmochan temple, two at the Varanasi Cantt railway station. Besides this four bombs have been defused at the Dashaswamedh Ghat and two live bombs were recovered from a restaurant in Varanasi. The city has been cordoned off.
As of now variable reports are coming in about the death toll. Official sources confirm that seven people have died and around 20 are injured. Unofficial sources say as many as 20 may have died and between 50 and 60 are injured.
The UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav has offered ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh to the relatives of the deceased and Rs 1 lakh to the injured.
<b>Police are speculating that Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were used in the blasts and that remote controls were use to trigger the bombs.</b>
<b>Intelligence officials are suggesting that part of a mixed group of twenty terrorists from groups like Lashkar-e-Tayabba and Jaish-e-Mohammed who crossed over from Nepal may be responsible for these attacks.</b>
<b>A Kashmiri militant was caught in Varanasi a few months ago .. but no action was taken at the time. Intelligence sources have also told SIT chief V K Shashikumar as well as Crime Bureau Chief Shiv Pujan Jha that information about such an attack was conveyed to the state government more than a month ago</b>
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Oh! so whole case is solved, they are pakistani. Give me a break, they should check Azamgarh, Mau etc for culprit they can find lot of home made bomb making factories.