Blast Rips Pune's German Bakery,9 dead,45 Wounded
Pune:
Terror returned to haunt country on saturday when a bomb blast ripped through the city's popular german Bakery close to the Osho Ashram and diagonally across from the jewish chabad House by 26/11 suspect David coleman Headley,killing at least nine people,four of them foreigners,all women
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More than 45 people have been rushed to hospital with varying degrees of injury.
The blast which left a 6ftx4ft hole in the wall took place at 7.15pm when the bakery was milling with people,many of them foreigners.According to union home secretary Gk pillai there was an unattended packet which exploded when a waiter trid to open it.
The german Bakery is a popular haunt of foreigners like Leopold restaurant in mumbai-in fact both are mentioned by the Lonely Planet tourist guide and are therefore patronised by many backpackers.
The dead include some foreigners but we are yet to esatablish their nationality. minister of state for home Ramesh Bagwe said.The injured suffered burns and fractures,said doctors at sessoon hospital.
Chabad House in Mumbai which was attacked on 26/11 had been recced by Headley, just as he had recced the one in Pune. Headley had stayed at the Surya Villa hotel in Koregaon, which is close to the blast site
we suspect foreigners could be involved in this blast,said special secretary U K Bansal,when asked in delhi whether he suspected any specific terror group.The state home minister R R patil reached pune late on saturday night,while chief minister Ashok Chavan is expected to be in the city on saturday.
Mahaarshtra deputy CM Chhagan Bhijbal and some officials said that police had input about a threat to the german bakery and security had been beefed up in the Korigaon area,but state home minister R R patil denied there was any intelligence input about an attack.
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