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At least eight people have been injured in India\u2019s tech capital when a suspected home-made bomb went off inside a popular cafe, officials say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The blast at Rameshwaram Cafe in eastern Bengaluru occurred just after 1pm (07:30 GMT) on Friday when crowds from nearby offices were lined up for a quick meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A \u201csmall improvised explosive device\u201d blew up at the busy eatery, causing panic, Siddaramaiah, chief minister of Karnataka state, who goes by one name, wrote on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bengaluru, known as \u201cIndia\u2019s Silicon Valley\u201d, is home to many of the country\u2019s top information technology companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Siddaramaiah said preliminary investigations suggested the explosive was hidden in a bag left by someone who had breakfast at the cafe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAround eight people were injured in the incident,\u201d he said, promising \u201cstrict action against the culprits\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police were investigating the incident, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhoever did this will be found out,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Divya Raghavendra Rao, co-founder and managing director of the cafe chain, said she was told there were two explosions within 10 seconds of each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt happened in the area where customers wash their hands. \u2026 Something that was kept in a bag exploded,\u201d Rao told the local TV9 news channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Al Jazeera News: At least eight people have been injured in India\u2019s tech capital when a suspected home-made bomb went off inside a popular cafe, officials say. The blast at Rameshwaram Cafe in eastern Bengaluru occurred just after 1pm (07:30 GMT) on Friday when crowds from nearby offices were lined up for a quick meal. A \u201csmall improvised explosive device\u201d blew up at the busy eatery, causing panic, Siddaramaiah, chief minister of Karnataka state, who goes by one name, wrote on the social media platform X. Bengaluru, known as \u201cIndia\u2019s Silicon Valley\u201d, is home to many of the country\u2019s top… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37828,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37826\/revisions\/37828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}