Police say blasts in Indian IT city were 'professional'

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BANGALORE, India (AFP) — Police in India's IT capital Bangalore were on Saturday looking for clues to a "professional" string of bombings that left one dead and seven wounded.

"They appear to be the handiwork of professionals who have come prepared to cause the blasts," Karnataka state police chief R. Srikumar told AFP.

"The evidence from the blast site indicates the bombs were professionally assembled with mechanisms to trigger them remotely."

Srikumar added the death toll now stood at one, with seven wounded. Officials earlier said two had died in the bombings.

Police also said they had cleared away an unexploded device found on Saturday in a suburb to the southeast of the city.

"Search and combing operations led to the detection of one...