{"id":5184,"date":"2008-05-13T13:41:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5184"},"modified":"2008-05-14T08:40:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T13:40:38","slug":"terrorists_bomb_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/13\/terrorists_bomb_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists Bomb Jaipur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of explosions went off in Jaipur&#8217;s old city today, killing at least 60 people and wounding another 150 (thanks, Rob).  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/05\/13\/india.bombs\/index.html \">CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><strong>The seven explosions started at about 7:30 p.m.<\/strong> (1400 GMT, 1000 ET) and <strong>detonated within 12 minutes of each other<\/strong>, police said.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote><strong>The bombs exploded within about 500 meters (0.3 mile) of each other in Jaipur&#8217;s old city, which is frequented by tourists<\/strong>&#8230;<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>An eighth bomb was defused, according to H.G. Raghavendra, a Jaipur city official. He described all the bombs as &#8220;medium intensity.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;There is no reason to panic,&#8221; he told CNN-IBN. &#8220;Everything is under control.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jCzOX2kTl3McYb4IhVF9ERzTQ7JwD90KTDTO0\">says<\/a> it was actually six bombs and the seventh was defused.  I&#8217;ve also seen different numbers for how many casualties the bombing caused.<\/p>\n\n<p>Ruthless timing:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>One of the blasts in Jaipur hit a market near a temple dedicated to the Hindu monkey god Hanuman, according to police. <strong>Tuesday is the day of worship set aside for Hanuman, and the temple was packed with people offering prayers on the way home from work.<\/strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jCzOX2kTl3McYb4IhVF9ERzTQ7JwD90KTDTO0\">AP<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>No group has stepped forward yet to claim credit for the horrific, dastardly act, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSSP1811320080513\">Reuters said<\/a> is &#8220;the deadliest bomb (attack) in India in nearly two years&#8221;.  If you have relatives in, friends visiting or are otherwise connected to the Pink City, you are in my thoughts.<\/p>\n\n<p>Developing&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of explosions went off in Jaipur&#8217;s old city today, killing at least 60 people and wounding another 150 (thanks, Rob). Via CNN: The seven explosions started at about 7:30 p.m. (1400 GMT, 1000 ET) and detonated within 12 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/13\/terrorists_bomb_2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}