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3 killed in pre-poll Delhi blast
NEW DELHI, Apr 26: At least three people were killed and 11 wounded when a powerful bomb exploded In a crowded underground shopping complex In the Indian capital today, witnesses and hospital sources said, reports AFP.
The victims died almost Instantly when the bomb went off at 6.50 pm ( 1320 GMT) In a toilet adjoining a restaurant In Pallka Bazar, triggering a panic In the popular shopping plaza and nearby areas.
Police reported only one death, but doctors at government hospital, where the victims were rushed in police Jeeps, said three people were dead on arrival and 11 injured, two of them seriously.
It was the fifth bomb blast
in New Delhi since March 18 and the third in the fashionable central commercial district of Cannaught place, which is frequented by thousands of Indians and foreigners.
Todays' deafening merchandise were blown to pieces-Tt was very powerful explosion. Police Commissioner Arun Bhagat said. But at this moment we will not be able to Identify which terrorist group is responsible.
Two successive bomb explosions. which killed 12 people in a crowded weekly market at a West Delhi suburb on March 23, were blamed on Sikh guerillas fighting for Independence in the Indian state of Punjab.
Police ringed the devastated area, where shoes and torn clothes littered bloodstained stones and concrete slabs, and Bhagat said an unspecified number of suspects had been taken in for questioning.
Reuter adds: Some 1.5 million police and paramilitary troops will be deployed to prevent violence during India's five-stage general election in late May and June, Indian Home Secretary R.K. Bhargava said today.
The men will be used in more than 300 constituencies identified, as sensitive among the 537 at stake In the polls. Bhargava told a news conference.
Most of India votes on May 20, 23 and 26.
But elections have been deferred until June 6 and 8 In Assam and June 22 in Punjab to allow security forces to be concentrated in the two slates troubled by separatist revolts.
The security plan Is built aroUnd a "strike force" of 64,000 paramilitary troops, who will be in charge of handling religious or caste violence and clashes between political parties. Bhargava said.
Nearly 2.000 people have been killed since October 1989 during a militant Hindu campaign to build a temple on a disputed site where a mosque now stands tn the northern town of Ayodhya.
Scores more were killed late last year when former Prime Minister Vlshwanath Pratap Singh decided to Increase the number of government jobs reserved for those at the bottom of the rigid Hindu caste hierarchy.
The intense summer heat, with temperatures in the interior climbing to 45 degree Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in late May. could also cause tempers to fray, analysts said.
The potential for religious and caste strife was a disquieting hew feature in the elections, Bhargava sdld, adding that there had been a 25 to 30 per cent Increase In communal clashes since 1989.
Most of the 300 sensitive constituencies are in the four states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, which account for half of all members of parliament.
Seven States and the union territory of Pondicherry and holding state assembly polls in addition to elections for India’s national parliament.