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India-Pakistan
Traditional Eid observances at Sufi shrine in India
2007-10-12
If I'm reading this right, the site is sacred to Sufi Muslims, so I'd look to the Deobandis of Pakland to find the Mastermind™...
A small bomb exploded just after evening prayers at an important and crowded Muslim shrine in northwestern India on Thursday, killing at least two people and wounding eight, according to police. The blast occurred at around 6.15 p.m. (1245 GMT) just outside the famous Ajmer Sharif shrine, or dargah, in the city of Ajmer in the desert state of Rajasthan just before the end of the Ramadan fasting month. Hundreds of people were in and around the shrine at the time, many breaking their fast after prayers.

"A big crowd had gathered outside the main shrine to break their fast," Lalit Maheswari, additional police chief for Ajmer told Reuters. "The bomb was placed in a bag. We have recovered some mobile instruments, so we think some sophisticated device was used, but an investigation is going on."

Television pictures showed a man being stretchered from the site with his clothes apparently torn from his body and what appeared to be a corpse with his eyes open.

The shrine, which contains the tomb of the Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisty, is one of the most important pilgrimage sites for Muslims in India.
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