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July 26th, 2008
Posted: 03:00 PM ET
(CNN) — At least 29 people were killed and 88 wounded when 17 blasts rocked the western Indian city of Ahmedabad within 70 minutes Saturday night, a government official told CNN. Narendera Modi is the chief minister of the Gujarat state, which encompasses Ahmedabad (prono: ah-MED-uh-bahd). Several media outlets and the country’s Intelligence Bureau received an e-mail, purportedly from the Muslim militant group Indian Mujahedeen, warning about a possible attack. Afterward, the Islamic militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJi) — or the Movement of the Islamic Holy War — claimed responsibility for the bombings, CNN-IBN said. Most of the explosions were in the eastern part of the city, all within a 10-kilometer (6-mile) radius, according to CNN’s sister network, CNN-IBN. Indian Mujahedeen claimed responsibility in May for near-simultaneous bomb attacks that killed 63 people in the northwest Indian city of Jaipur. At the time, the group declared “open war” against India in retaliation for what it said were 60 years of Muslim persecution and India’s support of U.S. policies. |
 
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