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A seven-member team comprising of NIA and NSG personnel have been rushed to Patna by the Union home ministry to help the state government with the investigation. The team will either take a commercial flight or a special flight to the Bihar capital from New Delhi. 12.25 pm BREAKING: Third blast reported near Gandhi Maidan in Patna, close to Modi’s rally venue. Details awaited 12.10 pm: BREAKING: Second blast in Patna, near Modi’s rally venue A second blast occurred in Patna near the Elphinstone Cinema Hall. The latest blast site is close to the venue where Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi‘s is likely to address a rally at 1 pm. Four people have been reportedly injured in the blast, the Bihar Police chief Abhayanand confirmed to IBN7. The second blast is not a crude device as the earlier one, the police chief said. The blast happened underneath a tree where people were resting to escape from the sun. Bihar Police is now seriously looking into the terror angle as it indicates towards a planned serial blasts. 12.00 pm: Timer devices in bombs According to the Union home ministry, two crude bombs were placed, out of which one went off while the other was detected. In a first, timer devices were attached to the bombs. 11.55 pm: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh tweets: 11.50 pm: Second crude bomb detected, one dead 11.40 am: Search on, no arrest yet: police Talking to reporters at the Patna railway station, Patna senior superintendent of police Manu Maharaj said,”The bomb disposal squad is conducting a search. We have no arrest so far.” 11.30 am: RJD blames state government Starting a political blame game, Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Ramkirpal Yadav blamed the Nitish Kumar-led state government soon after the blast. “There is a complete failure of law and order in Bihar. The state government is responsible for this lax in security. The common people are living in fear in the state. I demand that all officers who failed in their duties should be punished and there should not be a repeat of this kind of incidents,” Yadav told IBN7. “Despite the rally of BJP, the state government did not take addional security measures,” the parliamentarian said. 11.20 am: The Ministry for Home Affairs has sough report from the Bihar government seeking details of the blast. 11.15 am: Injured man to be questioned Police authorities in Patna said they are investigating whether the bomb exploded while it was being placed or ferried and whether it was meant to explode at the Narendra Modi rally in Gandhi Maidan later today. 11 am: Bomb explosion at railway station, one hurt One person sustained serious injuries when a crude bomb exploded at Patna railway station around 10 am on Sunday, just three hours before the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is scheduled to speak at the party’s biggest ever rally in the city. Unconfirmed reports suggested that the bomb disposal squad was searching the area for unexploded bombs. Blast site at Patna railway station. Image courtesy ibnlive The bomb exploded in the public toilet on Platform No 10 of the crowded railway station. As many as 11 additional trains are arriving in Patna on Sunday bringing in lakhs of people to attend the Modi rally in Gandhi Maidan. Reports said the bomb was a low intensity explosive device. The injured man was rushed to hospital. A squad of the bomb disposal squad rushed to the spot and sealed off the site of the explosion. The platform was, fortunately, not very crowded at the time of the explosion.
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A seven-member team comprising of NIA and NSG personnel have been rushed to Patna by the Union home ministry to help the state government with the investigation. The team will either take a commercial flight or a special flight to the Bihar capital from New Delhi. 12.25 pm BREAKING: Third blast reported near Gandhi Maidan in Patna, close to Modi’s rally venue. Details awaited 12.10 pm: BREAKING: Second blast in Patna, near Modi’s rally venue A second blast occurred in Patna near the Elphinstone Cinema Hall. The latest blast site is close to the venue where Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi‘s is likely to address a rally at 1 pm. Four people have been reportedly injured in the blast, the Bihar Police chief Abhayanand confirmed to IBN7. The second blast is not a crude device as the earlier one, the police chief said. The blast happened underneath a tree where people were resting to escape from the sun. Bihar Police is now seriously looking into the terror angle as it indicates towards a planned serial blasts. 12.00 pm: Timer devices in bombs According to the Union home ministry, two crude bombs were placed, out of which one went off while the other was detected. In a first, timer devices were attached to the bombs. 11.55 pm: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh tweets: 11.50 pm: Second crude bomb detected, one dead 11.40 am: Search on, no arrest yet: police Talking to reporters at the Patna railway station, Patna senior superintendent of police Manu Maharaj said,”The bomb disposal squad is conducting a search. We have no arrest so far.” 11.30 am: RJD blames state government Starting a political blame game, Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Ramkirpal Yadav blamed the Nitish Kumar-led state government soon after the blast. “There is a complete failure of law and order in Bihar. The state government is responsible for this lax in security. The common people are living in fear in the state. I demand that all officers who failed in their duties should be punished and there should not be a repeat of this kind of incidents,” Yadav told IBN7. “Despite the rally of BJP, the state government did not take addional security measures,” the parliamentarian said. 11.20 am: The Ministry for Home Affairs has sough report from the Bihar government seeking details of the blast. 11.15 am: Injured man to be questioned Police authorities in Patna said they are investigating whether the bomb exploded while it was being placed or ferried and whether it was meant to explode at the Narendra Modi rally in Gandhi Maidan later today. 11 am: Bomb explosion at railway station, one hurt One person sustained serious injuries when a crude bomb exploded at Patna railway station around 10 am on Sunday, just three hours before the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is scheduled to speak at the party’s biggest ever rally in the city. Unconfirmed reports suggested that the bomb disposal squad was searching the area for unexploded bombs. Blast site at Patna railway station. Image courtesy ibnlive The bomb exploded in the public toilet on Platform No 10 of the crowded railway station. As many as 11 additional trains are arriving in Patna on Sunday bringing in lakhs of people to attend the Modi rally in Gandhi Maidan. Reports said the bomb was a low intensity explosive device. The injured man was rushed to hospital. A squad of the bomb disposal squad rushed to the spot and sealed off the site of the explosion. The platform was, fortunately, not very crowded at the time of the explosion.
Read more at: http://www.firstpost.com/india/patn...l-thunder-1196755.html?utm_source=ref_article
