Explosions rock New Delhi

[Shadyluva]

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Officials blamed terrorists for a series of blasts that rocked crowded marketplaces and a neighborhood in New Delhi Saturday evening, killing at least 49 people and injuring dozens more, according to reports.

The blast in India's main capital came in a series, starting with an initial explosion in the main Paharganj market filled with shoppers ahead of a major Hindu festival next week, the Associated Press reported. Minutes later two more blasts occurred in another market swarming with people and in a neighborhood.

The AP said 39 people were killed at the popular Sarojini Nagar market. Three other people were killed in a bus in the Govindpuri neighborhood. Police said at least 60 people were injured in the first blast and dozens in the other two.

Police declared a state of emergency and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged calm and said in a statement: "India will win the battle against terrorism." The statement was read on CNN by one of his top advisers, Sanjaya Baru, who said the explosions were the work of terrorists, but did not say who the government thought was behind them, the AP reported. No groups have claimed responsibility

The AP noted that the blasts occurred as Indian and Pakistani officials began talks in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday on an unprecedented opening of the territory's disputed frontier to help victims of the massive Oct. 8 earthquake believed to have killed about 80,000 people.

Foreign Ministry officials were discussing whether to let Kashmiris cross the heavily militarized Line of Control, the cease-fire line that divides the Himalayan region over which the South Asian rivals have fought two wars, according to the AP.

According to CNN, a store owner in Sarojini Nagar noticed a bag and alerted people to leave. Within minutes, a thunderous explosion immediately gutted several stores and wee followed by a fire. The majority injured were women and children who had limbs torn from their bodies.

[yoshi]

yeah, i've heard about it.. it's really depressing, when you read about such things everyday..

[AspirinE]

i wonder who supplies the cash for these fuckers?

all the fucking coruption in this world
it is indeed coruption that lets this shit happen


Us humans are prolly gonna exterminate each other coz of greed...


props

[yoshi]

just found it on yahoo.com:

Reuters - 2 hours, 26 minutes ago

NEW DELHI - An obscure Kashmiri militant group claimed responsibility on Sunday for bomb blasts in India's capital which killed at least 59 people, but analysts said it was probably a front for a larger Pakistan-based group. New Delhi has so far refused to speculate on who was behind Saturday's trio of blasts, but security experts see the hand of Lashkar-e-Taiba (Force of the Pure) behind the attacks, in an attempt to derail the peace process between India and Pakistan.

[Hunneh_Buns]

People are running out of money to donate to things like this...

[Prentice2x9900]

I heard about that.....thats the worst...