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| Local minister injured in India bombing: official |
| 2010-07-13 |
| [Dawn] A minor bomb blast in the northern Indian city of Allahabad on Monday injured three people, including a minister in the local government and a journalist, an official said. The blast occurred outside the home of the Minister for Institutional Finance, Stamp and Judicial Tax in the Uttar Pradesh government, Nand Gopal Nandi, at about 11:45 am (0615 GMT). "Preliminary reports have confirmed that the blast was triggered by a crude bomb on a bike parked beside the road," district magistrate Sanjay Prasad said from Allahabad, 200 kilometres (124 miles) from state capital Lucknow. He said the three wounded men had been hospitalised but was unable to give details of their injuries. The journalist was working for the national daily newspaper The Indian Express. Local television reports claimed that Nandi was critically injured. |
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