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Explosion near BJP office in Bangalore, 16 hurt
Wednesday April 17, 2013 01:45:13 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore:
Sixteen people were injured, two of them seriously, in an
explosion in a congested locality near the office of Karnataka's
ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here Wednesday morning, police
said, suspecting a bomb blast.
Several vehicles were gutted but there was no damage to the party
office in the explosion that was initially believed to be a
cylinder blast.
"The explosion took place around 10.20 a.m. and investigation is
on to find out whether it is caused by a bomb as a motorbike was
found at the site," Bangalore Police Commissioner Raghavendra
Auradkar told reporters.
The BJP office is located in the crowded residential locality of
Malleshwaram in north Bangalore, about eight kilometres from the
city centre.
The two seriously injured are women, one of whom has a suffered
fracture in her leg, doctors at the KC General hospital, about
five kilometres from the explosion site, told reporters.
"The others have suffered minor injuries with two of them
complaining of loss of hearing," the doctors said.
Of the 16 injured, 11 are police personnel and five are civilians,
including three women, Home Minister R. Ashoka said at the
explosion site.
The policemen were in the van that was gutted in the explosion.
Residents in the area told reporters that the blast shook the
windowpanes of several houses.
"This act was to terrorise BJP and its workers," Ashoka said.
"We have sent a report to the central government," the minister
added.
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