One dead as bomb blasts hit Indian IT city: police

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BANGALORE, India (AFP) — India's high-technology capital Bangalore was hit by a string of five suspected bomb blasts Friday with at least one person killed and several wounded, police said.

"One woman died and four were injured in the first blast," Bangalore police commissioner Shankar Bidri told reporters, adding the total amount of explosive used in the bombs was "equivalent to one or two hand grenades."

"We suspect that timer devices were used in two or three explosive devices, while the other two could have been set off using mobile phones," he said.

All the five explosions took place within a radius of 10 to 15 kilometres (six to nine miles), he said.

Assistant police commissioner A. Raghuveer said a total of five bombs went off in different...