Union home minister P Chidambaram said on Thursday that Wednesday's Mumbai blasts were coordinated terror attack and that all groups that are capable of carrying out such blasts are suspects.
The home minister said that the government did not have any intelligence inputs about Wednesday's blast with central and state agencies.
Ammonium nitrate with timer devices were used in the IEDs in Mumbai, Chidambaram said. It was not a remotely triggered blast and the Dadar blast was a low intensity one, he added.
He put the death toll at 18 and said that the number of injured stand at 131 including 23 who are seriously in Wednesday's blasts.
Maharashtra chief minister Prithiviraj Chavan announced compensation of Rs 5 lakh for families of blast victims.
The home minister said that the government did not have any intelligence inputs about Wednesday's blast with central and state agencies.
Ammonium nitrate with timer devices were used in the IEDs in Mumbai, Chidambaram said. It was not a remotely triggered blast and the Dadar blast was a low intensity one, he added.
He put the death toll at 18 and said that the number of injured stand at 131 including 23 who are seriously in Wednesday's blasts.
Maharashtra chief minister Prithiviraj Chavan announced compensation of Rs 5 lakh for families of blast victims.
No comments:
Post a Comment