Blasts in south Indian train station kill 1 woman

NEW DELHI: Twin explosions ripped through two coaches of a passenger train Thursday morning in a southern Indian railway station, killing a 22-year-old woman and injuring nine people, officials said. Authorities suspect the blasts were caused by bombs planted on the Bangalore-Guwahati Express that detonated minutes after the train pulled into the station in the south-coast city of Chennai, according to the spokesman of India's southern railway system, M. Bhupati. "The police are already on the job, they are investigating what kind of bomb it was and what was the purpose," Chennai Central station General Manager R.K. Mishra said. At least one of the blasts erupted from underneath a coach seat where the 22-year-old victim was sitting, killing her, Mishra said. Two of the nine injured were being treated in a hospital for serious injuries, while police investigated and bomb squads checked the train for more explosive devices, Mishra said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in a region of India considered relatively peaceful.