Peaceful Religionists blow up 3 courts in India
Arthur Brain
From correspondents in Lucknow
November 23, 2007 09:39pm
Article from: Reuters
NEARLY simultaneous blasts outside courts in three northern Indian
cities killed at least 10 people in what a senior government official
said were terrorist strikes.
Police said the blasts were reported from Lucknow, Varanasi and
Faizabad, all in the populous state of Uttar Pradesh.
Brij Lal, a senior state police officer, told local television that 10
people had been killed; three in Faizabad and seven in Varanasi.
There was no report of any casualties in Lucknow.
"I believe it is the handiwork of groups who are trying to spread
terror in our country," junior Home Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said.
India has been hit by blasts frequently in recent years and most of
them have been blamed by investigators on Pakistan-based Islamist
militant groups fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir.