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NIA, NSG teams rushed to blasts sites: Shinde

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Press Trust of India Mumbai
Last Updated : Oct 27 2013 | 6:55 PM IST
NIA and NSG teams have been rushed to the blats sites in Patna, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said here today.
"There were five blasts in and around Gandhi Maidan in Patna where five people were killed and 72 people were injured. I am in contact with the Bihar government," Shinde told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
Shinde also informed that the NIA team stationed at Bodh Gaya in Bihar in connection with the July bombings was also being rushed to the site of explosions in Patna.
When asked if it was a terror strike, the Home Minister evaded a direct reply, saying he was giving whatever information he had with him.

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First Published: Oct 27 2013 | 6:55 PM IST

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