JAIPUR, India -- Bombs ripped through crowded parts of this ancient city in western India on Tuesday, killing 60 people and wounding 150, police said.
The seven explosions in Jaipur took place in markets and several other areas of the city in Rajasthan, a region dotted with palaces and temples that draws hundreds of thousands of tourists every year, said A.S. Gill, the state's police chief.
An injured person is carried at the scene of the blast in Jaipur, India Tuesday.
"Obviously, it's a terrorist plot," he told reporters. "The way it has been done, the attempt was to cause the maximum damage to human life."
He said bicycles may have been used in the bombings. But he did not say if the explosives were detonated by suicide bombers riding through the crowds or if the bombs had been planted on parked bicycles.
Another senior Rajasthan police officer, A.K. Jain, said 60 people were killed and 150 wounded.
Shortly after the bombings, which began just before 7:30 p.m., authorities put New Delhi, India's capital, and Mumbai, the country's financial centre, on high alert along with several other cities.
Security was also stepped up at airports and railway stations across the country, said India's junior home minister, Sriprakash Jaiswal.
-- The Associated Press
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