At least 30people were killed and more than a 100 injured in five serial blasts in a span of 22 minutes when terrorists targeted crowded market areas in the heart of the capital city this evening.Five live bombs are defused central pert of Delhi
Home Minister Shivraj Patil said 22people have died and many others injured in the blasts that took place in a span of 45 minutes.Patil said "the blasts have been engineered by people who want to create disharmony and disturb the social texture and expressed confidence that their designs would be defeated by people maintaining social harmony".
Indian Mujahideen, a shadow amalgam of banned SIMI and Lashker-e-Taiba, claimed responsibility for the blasts through an e-mail sent to news organisations around the same time when the blasts took place.Later e-mail was traced it will sent from Mumbai
A young boy claiming to be an eye-witness said two men in black clothes planted something in a dustbin in the Central Park in Connaught place which exploded later.
The bomb was made by Ammonium nitrate fuel oil and IC chips,ball bearing is used to maximum impact to for the explotion the terror e-mail was traced to Chembur in Mumbai.Today's blasts come after the serial blasts in Jaipur in May in which 65 people were killed and the explosions in Ahmedabad in July that left 49 dead. There were serial blasts in Bangalore in which two people were killed.
The first explosion rocked Ghaffar market of Karol Bagh at 6.11 PM . The explosive was kept near a Maruti car, and the impact of the blast was so severe that an autorickshaw was thrown up several feet in the air.
This was followed by two blasts in Connaught Place - one in central park and one near a commercial tower in Barakhamba area, and two in Greater Kailash in South Delhi.
The explosives were planted in dustbins in Connaught place area while in Greater Kailash one was in dustbin and another on a bicycle.
At least 4 unexploded bombs were recovered outside Regal cinema house in Connaught place and near India Gate.One live bomb was found by child
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