A pair of bombings tore through crowded public areas in India today, killing 28 people and leaving dozens more wounded.

A bomb ripped through a historic mosque as Friday prayers were ending in southern India, killing at least five people and wounding more than two dozen, officials said.

Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains killed 12 more people in a southern Indian state and shut down one of its key airports for a third day, officials said on Saturday.