"At least 60 people have been killed and more than 150 wounded after a series of bomb blasts tore through the city of Jaipur in western India, officials say.
The bombs went off near historic monuments in the crowded old city at one of the busiest times of the day.
The head of state police said it was a terrorist attack. Reports suggest the death toll could rise.
Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is a popular tourist destination about 260km (160 miles) from the Indian capital, Delhi.
No group has admitted planting bombs in Jaipur. It is not yet clear what the motive for attacking the city might be.
Most people in Jaipur are Hindus but the city has a large Muslim minority. Correspondents say it has no history of religious violence.
There have been sporadic bomb attacks around India in recent years. The police have had little success in bringing prosecutions.
Up to seven blasts were heard in the heart of Jaipur, capital of Rajasthan state, starting at around 1915 local time (1345 GMT).
Each came a few minutes apart and eyewitnesses spoke of panic and then a stampede in the crowded old walled city.
Television pictures showed scenes of twisted debris and pools of blood on the streets...."
Now what are they not reporting? The Indian "Hindu News" supplies the unsurprising missing piece of the jigsaw:
"New Delhi (PTI): Banned Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islamia (HuJI), operating from Bangladesh, is believed to be behind the serial blasts that rocked the tourist city of Jaipur on Tuesday evening, killing nearly 50 people besides injuring several others.
Though baffled by the attack as Jaipur was not on the terror radar, sources said the tell-tale signs of the blasts indicate HuJI's hand.
The blasts showed that HuJI, which is being mainly run from Bangladesh, has managed to establish cells in Rajasthan and that the outfit was responsible for previous major terror attacks including the New Year eve attack on CRPF camp in Rampur and serial blasts in three other places in Uttar Pradesh.
The last terror strike in Rajasthan occurred on October 11, 2007 when an explosion in the Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer left two persons dead and 17 others injured.
HuJI outfit, suspected to be behind the blast at the sufi shrine, had used a mixture of Tri-Nitro Toluene (TNT) as the explosive material.
In today's blasts also, pieces of iron pipe were used by militants as splinters that pierced through victims at the crowded places in the Pink city.
The sources did not rule out the possibility that banned HuJI may have been supported by Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) which has been attempting to target tourist destinations and places of economic interests.
The intelligence agencies have already started analysing STD and international calls made out of Jaipur during the last 48 hours."
Now what factor might link Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islamia and Jaish-e-Mohammed? There are clues in their names...
The BBC have a little "box out" that lists some recent bomb attacks in India:
"RECENT BOMB ATTACKS
August 2007: Bombs in open-air auditorium and restaurant in Hyderabad kill more than 40
May 2007: Bomb in historic Hyderabad mosque kills 14
February 2007: Twin blasts on train travelling from Delhi to Pakistan kills at least 66 people near Panipat
July 2006: More than 160 killed by seven bombs on train network in Mumbai
March 2006: Bombs at Hindu temple and railway station in Varanasi kill 15
October 2005: Three blasts in Delhi kill 62"
Strangely the perpetrators of all bar the second attack are not named, although the BBC is careful to show by listing the second one that a mosque had been attacked.
The BBC happy to promote multiculturalism and Islamic views, not so happy to ascribe any blame to the followers of the "religion of peace".
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