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Unexploded bombs found at site of Pune blasts

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Senior official says two more bombs found near where four explosions occurred in Indian city

A senior Indian official says investigators have found two unexploded bombs in the same area where a series of small blasts went off in the western city of Pune.

Four small explosions struck the city on Wednesday night with one person suffered minor injuries.

The home secretary, RK Singh, told reporters in Delhi on Thursday that investigators had found two unexploded devices near where the blasts took place.

He said the fact that all of the blasts went off within 500 metres (1,600ft) and within 45 minutes of each other showed there was planning behind them.

"There have been four blasts and one person has been injured," Singh said. "The fourth blast took place in the dustbin of McDonald's."

Television images showed police picking through rubbish strewn from a knocked-over bin, and busy traffic on the street where people were celebrating a festival. The injured person was a cyclist, police said.

India's new home minister, Sushilkumar Shinde, had been due to visit the city, in his home state of Maharashtra, on Wednesday, hours after taking office, but had cancelled the trip due to other commitments, junior home minister Jitendra Singh told NDTV.

Seventeen people were killed in a bombing at a cafe in Pune in 2010.


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