Bike bomb blasts kill 32 in India

TWO bombs rigged to bicycles tore through a crowd of Muslim worshippers leaving a mosque after prayers yesterday, killing at least 32 people and injuring about 100 in India in what officials called “a terrorist act”.

Authorities clamped a curfew over the western city of Malegaon, which has a long history of violence between Muslims and Hindus, to stop revenge attacks. Past sectarian attacks have set off spiralling violence.

“There’s a high alert across the state,” MR PS Pasricha, Maharashtra state’s director-general of police, said: “We have activated all police machinery to ensure that communal harmony is maintained.”