Pune blasts: Four explosions in 40 minutes

Four low-intensity blasts were reported in Pune on Wednesday evening. The explosions reportedly took place in a span of seven minutes on the city's busy Junglee Maharaj Road.

Aug 01, 2012 20:44 IST

Four low-intensity blasts rocked Pune's busy Junglee Maharaj Road during rush hour in a span of 40 minutes on Wednesday evening. Two other bombs were defused. One person was injured in the blasts.

The blasts took place outside the Balgandharva auditorium used to stage plays, at a statue near that theatre, opposite a McDonalds outlet and near a bank.
One of the bombs, placed on a cycle, was hooked up to sophisticated circuitry, say sources.
The Anti-Terror Squad reached the location of the blasts. They are examining CCTV footage from the branch of McDonald's where one of the explosion took place.

The Army has also sent a bomb disposal squad to the blast site at the request of the local administration. Pune is the Southern Command headquarters of the Indian Army.
Home Secretary RK Singh told PTI that a terror angle cannot be ruled out as it appears to be a planned attack.
In February 2010, 17 people were killed in a bomb blast at the popular German Bakery near Pune's famous Osho ashram. After being arrested in the US, Lashkar –e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley confessed to having filmed the bakery to help in the planning and execution of the terror attack.

Photo sent by Dharmesh Thakkar @news_houndz
Photo sent by Dharmesh Thakkar @news_houndz
Police and bomb detection and disposal squad (BDDS) examine a dustbin on Junglee Maharaj road where one of the blasts took place on Wednesday evening.