BOMBAY: Four persons were injured when a country made bomb exploded at the public meeting to felicitate right wing BJP leader L K Advani at Shivaji Park central Bombay Jan 27th evening.
A casual laborer working at the mazagon telephone exchange has been taken into custody in this connection. Three miscreants escaped police said.
The injured were rushed to the Bhaba hospital in Bandra.
BJP general secretary of the Bombay unit Kirit Somaya claimed that there were three bombs while police maintained that only one bomb exploded. Earlier the BJP office had received an anonymous call that mischief would be created at the meeting and the police were informed accordingly Mr Somaya said.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 1, 1991
