Chandigarh (AsiaNews) – The explosion of a bomb hidden inside a cinema in Ludhiana, northern Punjab, yesterday left 6 people dead. A further 30 were seriously wounded in the attack and are currently being treated in the city’s Christian hospital.
There have been no claims of responsibility for the attack, but authorities have no doubts as to its terrorist nature. The state Prime Minister Parkash Singh Badal, forcibly condemned the episode: “In Punjab fundamental and anti-national forces inimical to peace and communal harmony will not be allowed to succeed in their nefarious designs”. He also directed the civil and police officials in the state to remain vigilant and added that government will provide free medical treatment to the injured and will give adequate compensation to the next of those who had died in the incident.
India has been on nationwide alert since an attack last Thursday on a famous Muslim shrine in the city of Ajmer, in Rajasthan, killed two people. According to officials from the Home Ministry there is a “strategy to spread terror and undermine the nations democratic foundations” in act in India.
