8 killed, 33 hurt in Indian bakery blast

Sunday, February 14, 2010
PUNE: In a suspected terror attack, a high-intensity bomb ripped apart the popular German Bakery here, a hangout frequented by youngsters and foreigners, leaving at least eight persons, including a few foreign nationals, dead and more than 40 persons injured, several critically, on Saturday evening.

The Saturday blast was stated to be the first major strike after the 26/11 carnage in Mumbai.

City police squads that swung into action immediately recovered a live bomb from a suspicious bag from an auto-rickshaw from the vicinity of the blast site, it was stated.

The blast took place around 7 pm, the city police said. The popular hangout in city’s plush Koregaon park area is located in the close vicinity of the Jewish prayer house here and the Osho Ashram.

Incidentally, American terror suspect David Headley had in 2008-2009 twice visited the Osho Ashram and was later found to have stayed in a hotel in the vicinity of the German Bakery.

Union Home Secretary G K Pillai in a statement made in New Delhi stated that the blast was a terror attack and a CBI forensic team was being sent to Pune.

The blast victims include five women, preliminary reports say. The injured were immediately taken to Inlacks and Budhrani, Ruby Hall and Jehangir hospitals and at least six of them were stated to be critical. One of the critically burnt victims was shifted to Surya Hospital.

The city has been put on a high alert after the blast.

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