Mumbai serial blasts were coordinated terror attack: P Chidambaram
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.
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