Patna Blasts Toll Rises as One Suspect Dies


Additional security forces have been deployed at all important places including crowded markets to instil a sense of confidence among local people, who panicked after the serial blasts, Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) S.K. Bharadwaj said.
He said that the attack was the first in the history of Patna.
Maharaj said that National Investigation Agency (NIA) team, which has begun probing into the serial blast, Monday sealed the Gandhi Maidan.
The NIA team hopes to collect more evidence from the ground.
Another senior police official said that a total of 13 suspected people have been detained including a seriously injured youth from the ground after serial blasts.
"All of them have been interrogated by the Bihar police, NIA and IB officials," he said.
The first of the supposedly low intensity blasts ripped through a toilet at around 10 a.m. at the newly built Platform 10 of the railway station in the heart of the city, killing one person and wounding another.
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