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At least three near-simultaneous bomb blasts have hit the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, reports say.At least three near-simultaneous bomb blasts have hit the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, reports say.
Officials say at least four people have been killed in the explosions in the state capital Lucknow, a nearby town of Faizabad and the holy city of Varanasi.Officials say at least four people have been killed in the explosions in the state capital Lucknow, a nearby town of Faizabad and the holy city of Varanasi.
Reports said the blasts occurred within five minutes of each other. They took place inside crowded court premises. Reports said the blasts occurred within five minutes of each other, near or outside local courts.
Some casualties are feared. Police have described the explosion at the Faizabad court as a "powerful" one. There have been a number of bomb attacks in India this year, which have left well over 100 people dead.
Little headway
Police have described the explosion at the Faizabad court as a "powerful" one.
A senior police officer said the blast in Lucknow was "minor".A senior police officer said the blast in Lucknow was "minor".
"I believe it is the handiwork of groups who are trying to spread terror in our country," India's junior home minister, Sriprakash Jaiswal told reporters. At least 12 lawyers were injured in explosion in the Varanasi, officials said.
At least 12 lawyers were injured in the explosion in Varanasi, officials said. India's junior home minister, Sriprakash Jaiswal, said he believed Friday's blasts were "the handiwork of groups who are trying to spread terror in our country."
In October a blast in a cinema in Punjab province killed six people.
Over 60 people were killed after a bomb attack aboard a train travelling from India to Pakistan near Panipat, north of the capital, Delhi, in February.
In May, at least nine people were killed in a bomb explosion at a historic mosque in the southern city of Hyderabad.
At least 42 people were killed in a series of blasts in two locations in Hyderabad in August.
And in October, a bomb attack on a famous Muslim shrine in the city of Ajmer, in Rajasthan, killed two people.
Many of these blasts were blamed on local terror groups, but the police has largely been unable to make much headway in the investigations, correspondents say.