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Seventeen blasts struck residential areas, market places, public transport and hospitals in Ahmedabad in India within an hour on Saturday. The bomb blasts raised the death toll in the city to 49. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has visited the city accompanied by Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi and the federal interior minister Shivraj Pati.

Speaking to reporters, the PM expressed "solidarity with the people of Gujarat in their hour of crisis" and said, "I commend the people of Gujarat for the resilience they have shown. These terrorist acts are aimed at destroying our social fabric, undermining communal harmony and demoralising our people".

Violence between Hindu and Muslims in early 2002 left hundred of people dead. After the bomb blasts, the authorities raised the security on high level on all Indian cities as police hunt for those responsible for the blasts, which wounded over 100. Police say they have arrested one man and detained several people for questioning.

Mr Singh visited some sites of the blasts and the hospital to the see the injured. He expressed condolence to the "people of Gujarat in their hour of crisis" and said, "We will rise to the challenge and these forces will not succeed".

News source BBC
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