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60 dead as bombs rip through Jaipur

AP, New Delhi
Seven bombs ripped through centuries-old Indian city Jaipur yesterday, leaving at least 60 people dead in a jewelry market, on the steps of a Hindu monkey god temple and in other ordinarily packed areas of the popular tourist destination.
The blasts all struck within the old walls of the city known for its pink-hued palaces, and suspicion quickly fell on Islamic militant groups blamed for a siring of attacks on India in recent years.
"Obviously, it's a terrorist plot," said AS Gill, the police chief of Rajasthan, the state where Jaipur is located.
"The way it has been done, the attempt was to cause the maximum damage to human life," he said, adding an eighth bomb was
found and defused by police.
Another senior Rajasthan police officer, AK Jain, said 60 people were killed and 150 wounded in the bombings.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, as is the case with most bombings in India. But within hours of the blasts, authorities were suggesting that blame would eventually fall on Pakistan and the Islamic militant groups New Delhi accuses it of backing.
"One can't rule out the involvement of a foreign power," said India’s junior home minister, Sriprakash Jaiswal, using language commonly understood to refer to neighboring Pakistan.
Jaiswal refused to say if he was indeed talking about Pakistan -"that's the subject of investigation," was all he would say. But Indian authorities have blamed
Paldstan-based Islamic militant groups for a spate of bombings that have killed nearly 400 people in this predominantly Hindu country of 1.1 billion people since 2005.
Pakistan denies any role in the bombings.
The attacks have run the gamut from the July 2006 train bombings that left nearly 200 people dead in Mumbai, India's financial center, to small blasts like the one that struck a Muslim shrine in Rajasthan last year, killing two people.
Jaiswal suggested Tuesday's bombings were connected to those previous explosions, saying "the blasts are part of a big conspiracy."
Each new bombing has brought fears of a fresh outbreak of the violence between Hindus and Muslims.that has sporadically bled India throughout its history, and authorities appealed for calm in the wake ofTuesday's attack.
Shortly after the bombings, authorities put New Delhi, India's capital, and Mumbai, the country's financial center, on high alert along with several other cities. Security was also quickly stepped up at airports and railway stations across the country.
The blasts began around 7:30 p.m. (1400 GMT), and one hit a market near a temple dedicated to the Hindu monkey god _Hanuni^n, Tuesday isjhe day of worship set aside for Hanuman, and the temple was packed with people offering prayers on the way home from work.
Another blast took place near the Johari Bazaar - the city's jewelry market, a popular destination for tourists. The tourist season, however, ended in March and there were no immediate indications that foreigners had been caught in the explosions.
Pariksnit Bhandari, who saw the attack near the jewelry market, said there was "blood all around and wounded people crawling on the ground."
Television channels showed footage of mangled bicycles, damaged cars and overturned bicycle rickshaws, the most popular mode of transport in the crowded lanes of Jaipur.
The city is one of the major attractions in Rajasthan, a desert region dotted with palaces and temples that draw hundreds of thousands of Indian and foreign tourists every year, from bargainhunting backpackers to celebrities like Mick Jagger.
While no foreigners appeared to have been caught in Tuesday's attack, "We are all nervous. We don't want Jaipur's economy to go down," said Manoj Sharma, a New Delhi travel agent.
Still, it'll be months before temperatures in Rajasthan dip below 100 degrees and the high season for tourists begins. By then, he hopes, fears will have faded.