VOA标准英语2008年-More Deadly Bomb Blasts Rock India

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A day after serial¹ bombings in India's high-tech² hub, Bangalore, there have been numerous blasts in Ahmedabad, western India's commercial and cultural capital. Authorities report at least 29 people are dead and more than 100 injured there following 16 separate explosions in and around the capital of the state of Gujarat. VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Delhi.

As investigators³ in Bangalore were seeking clues amid the debris⁴ from a series of low intensity⁵ explosions there, a similar group of blasts hit another Indian city Saturday evening.

The latest target: the capital of the state of Gujarat. While only one person died in the Bangalore bombings, the number of dead and injured in Ahmedabad is much higher. Authorities say the explosive devices were placed in lunch canisters on bicycles which were parked at crowded markets. One bomb also exploded at a trauma⁶ center where some of the injured had been taken.

Television stations say just before the first blast in Ahmedabad they had received a 14-page long e-mail warning of an attack from a group calling itself "Indian Mujahedin." The little-known group has previously⁷ claimed responsibility for bomb blasts in other cities.

Home Minister Shivraj Patil says whatever resources are needed to render aid and investigate the attacks will be committed.

The cabinet minister says whether it is Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore or Ahmedabad the government will not play the blame game because to do that will not help the people.

His comments are a reference to the finger-pointing between the national and state governments over accusations⁸ they are not doing enough to prevent such attacks.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for Indians to "maintain communal⁹ harmony." The fear is if radical¹⁰ Islamic groups are blamed for the bomb blasts that Hindu activists¹¹ may attack minority Muslims in retaliation¹².

Gujarat is especially sensitive because six years ago more than 1,000 people died there during rioting between Hindus and Muslims which threw the entire state into chaos¹³ for weeks.