Uttar Pradesh minister injured in blast
By IANSMonday, July 12, 2010
ALLAHABAD - Three people, including an Uttar Pradesh minister, were seriously injured in a bomb blast in Allahabad city Monday, police said.
Nand Gopal Nandi, the minister for stamps and registrations as well as institutional finance, has been admitted to the Jivan Jyoti Hospital, about 200 from here.
“The minister had just stepped out of his home in Mutthiganj locality and was walking down to a temple in the neighbourhood when the blast took place,” Allahabad District Magistrate Sanjay Prasad said.
He said a journalist and a securityman were also injured.
“Preliminary reports confirm that the crude bomb was kept in a bike parked beside the road where the blast took place,” he said.
No arrests have been made so far.
Chief Minister Mayawati has asked Principal Home Secretary Fateh Bahadur and Director General of Police Karamveer Singh to leave for Allahabad to take stock of the situation, an official said.
