Friday, November 23, 2007

India Under Siege


Breaking news at Pat Dollard of six bombings in India. At least 10 dead, dozens injured.


LUCKNOW, India (AP) - A series of near-simultaneous explosions shook courthouses Friday in three north Indian cities, with blasts going off in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad and killing at least 10 lawyers and injuring dozens of other people people, officials said.
At least two bombs went off in Faizabad, killing four lawyers and injuring 10 to 12 more, said R.N. Singh, a local police officer. One of the bombs was rigged to a motorcycle, he said.
Padam Kriti, a spokesman of the Uttar Pradesh Bar Association, said the state’s lawyers had decided earlier this year not to defend any Muslim terror suspects, adding “it looks like” that decision may have been behind blasts

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