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More die in cinema blast
14/10/2007 23:11 - (SA)
Amritsar - Police and witnesses say at least six people were killed and 30 others injured on Sunday in a suspected bomb attack in a packed cinema in northern India.
The explosion happened as hundreds of people - mainly poor migrant workers - were crammed into a theatre in the industrial city of Ludhiana in northern Punjab state to watch the late-night screening of a new Bollywood comedy.
Police officials in Amritsar, the main city in Punjab, put the toll at six dead and around 30 injured, many of them seriously.
Indian media reports said the likely cause was a bomb attack, although the Home Ministry in New Delhi said it was still "too early" to draw any conclusions.
India has been hit by a wave of unsolved bomb attacks in recent months that officials have blamed on Pakistani-backed Islamic militants. Punjab, however, was also the scene of a bloody Sikh insurgency in the 1980's.
- SAPA
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