INDIA: Fifteen killed in holy city blasts
published: Wednesday | March 8, 2006

LUCKNOW, India, (Reuters):

AT LEAST 15 people were killed and scores wounded in a series of explosions which hit the Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi in northern India within a span of 45 minutes yesterday, police said.

One explosion occurred in the packed Sankat Mochan temple and two blasts rocked one of the city's main railway stations, a federal interior ministry official told Reuters.

"Fifteen people have died and about 60 are injured. The blasts were pretty big and I do not rule out a terrorist hand behind it," Navneet Sikera, Varanasi's police chief, told Reuters.