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One hurt in low-intensity blasts in Pune
Thursday August 02, 2012 12:45:40 AM,
IANS
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Pune/New Delhi: On the
day Sushilkumar Shinde assumed office as the union home minister,
four low-intensity explosions hit Pune city in his home state
Maharashtra, injuring one person.
"According to the details I have got, four blasts took place
between 7.27 p.m. and 8.15 p.m. Wednesday evening on Junglee
Maharaj Road," Shinde, who was to have attended a function at an
auditorium on the same road but had cancelled his visit, told
reporters in New Delhi.
"One person has suffered a minor injury and is being treated at
Sasoon Hospital in Pune," he added.
Also in New Delhi, Home Secretary R.K. Singh said the injured
person was being treated as a suspect and the terror angle was not
being ruled out.
"The intensity (of the blasts) was not much," Shinde said.
When asked if it was a terrorist attack, Shinde declined comment,
stating that the matter is under inquiry. "At this point I cannot
say more," he said.
He said a National Investigation Agency team had already left for
Pune and a post-blast team of the NSG is also being sent.
"The blasts appear to be well-coordinated," Pune Police
Commissioner Gulabrao Pol told media persons.
One of the blasts took place at the Bal Gangadhar Chowk near the
Rangsharda auditorium on the busy Junglee Maharaj Road and another
in a dustbin outside a McDonalds outlet nearby.
A third explosion occurred near the Dena Bank in the same area,
triggering panic among people during the evening peak hour.
A fourth explosion went off on a bicycle at Garware Chowk on the
same road.
According to police officers at the blast site, two more bombs
were timed to go off around the same time. However, they were
detected by the dog squad. One of the bombs went off in a
controlled environment while the other was defused on the spot.
The very fact that four explosions had occurred almost within a
range of a kilometre in a short span, showed that there was some
planning, the home secretary said.
"As of now, we are treating him (the injured person) as a suspect.
He was carrying a packet. He is being interrogated," R.K. Singh
told reporters.
Pune advocate Bipin Patole, an eye witness was in his office in
the area when he heard one of the blasts.
"The sound was so loud that it seemed to be a huge blast. Though
the intensity was low, the sound was very high," Patole told media
persons.
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