Official says explosion in a bakery kills 8, injures 32 in western India
By APSaturday, February 13, 2010
Blast in a bakery kills 8 in India
NEW DELHI — A powerful explosion ripped through a bakery in the western Indian city of Pune on Saturday, killing at least eight people and injured 32 others, an official said.
Ashok Chavan, the top elected official of Maharashtra state, said police were investigating whether it was a cooking gas cylinder that exploded by accident or a bomb.
But Press Trust of India quoted federal Home Secretary G.K. Pillai as saying that it was most probably a terror attack. Top police officer Rajender Sonawania was also quoted as saying the initial indications were that it was a bomb blast.
The explosion occurred in German Bakery close to the Osho Ashram, a mediation center of a famed Indian guru, often frequented by foreigners.
It was not immediately known whether foreigners were among the victims.
