2 dead, 9 wounded in Ajmer Dargah blast
Ajmer, (PTI): At least two pilgrims were killed and nine others, including a child, injured in a terror attack when a crude bomb went off at the sufi shrine of Khawaja Moinuddhin Chishti where thousands of devout gathered to break the day-long Ramzan fast on Thursday.
Two persons, including 45-year-old Mohd Sohaib from Mumbai, died on the spot and nine others were injured in the blast near Aasthan-e-Noor opposite Begum Ki Dhalan, when people had gathered there for iftaar, Deepak Upreti, Divisonal Commisioner of Ajmer, told PTI.
The crude bomb, planted near a tree at Aasthan-e-Noor, went off a minute after the fasting period ended at 18:16 hours, he said.
Union Home Ministry sources in Delhi said it was a terror strike in which militants had used a low-intensity improvised explosive device.
They said the terror outfits, including Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, were against sufi Islam and they could be prime suspects behind the blast which came barely 10 days ahead of the meeting of Indo-Pakistan anti-terror mechanism here on October 22.
CRPF battalions based in Ajmer had been kept in readiness for deployment at the shrine.
