Terror strikes Varanasi: 1 dead, 35 hurt in blast at ghat

VARANASI: A 10-month seeming lull after the Pune German Bakery blast was shattered on Tuesday when terror returned with a low-grade explosion at the evening Ganga Aarti in Varanasi that left a one-year-old girl, Swastika Sharma, dead and 35 injured, including four foreigners. The crude device went off at 6.40pm at the old Dasaswamedh Ghat just as the aarti had begun. Mercifully the crowd was thin for the popular aarti on Tuesday as the city was already under red alert because of the Babri Masjid demolition anniversary a day earlier. The Indian Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the blast in an email sent from close to Link Road in…

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Terror strikes Varanasi: 1 dead, 35 hurt in blast at ghat

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