Blast rocks Ajmer; 2 dead, 17 hurt
Bomb concealed in a school bag; Mumbai resident among the dead in the explosion at Sufi shrine.
By PTI |
AJMER: Terror struck the highly revered Sufi shrine of Khawaja Moinuddin Chisthi here when a bomb went off inside the complex on Thursday evening, killing two persons and injuring 17 others as thousands of Muslims were breaking their day-long Ramzan fast.
A near-stampede broke out soon after the bomb kept in a school bag exploded at 6.16 pm as people, who were having food after the fast, ran helter-skelter, many of them profusely bleeding. At the site of the blast, overturned plates and eatables lay scattered.
One of the persons killed in the low-intensity explosion, which took place a few metres away from the main tomb, was identified as 45-year-old Mohd Shoaib from Mumbai who had come to offer prayers at the dargah of the 13th century Sufi saint. Of the 17 injured, who were taken to local Jawaharlal Nehru hospital, the condition of one was critical, additional director general of police (law and order) Kanihya Lal said in Jaipur.
It appeared to be a pre-planned terror attack and the bomb was kept in a school bag near a tree at ‘aahetai-e-noor’ (holy place), about 10-15 feet away from main tomb of the Sufi saint, he said.
A near-stampede broke out soon after the bomb kept in a school bag exploded at 6.16 pm as people, who were having food after the fast, ran helter-skelter, many of them profusely bleeding. At the site of the blast, overturned plates and eatables lay scattered.
One of the persons killed in the low-intensity explosion, which took place a few metres away from the main tomb, was identified as 45-year-old Mohd Shoaib from Mumbai who had come to offer prayers at the dargah of the 13th century Sufi saint. Of the 17 injured, who were taken to local Jawaharlal Nehru hospital, the condition of one was critical, additional director general of police (law and order) Kanihya Lal said in Jaipur.
It appeared to be a pre-planned terror attack and the bomb was kept in a school bag near a tree at ‘aahetai-e-noor’ (holy place), about 10-15 feet away from main tomb of the Sufi saint, he said.
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