Blasts were detonated outside courts in three northern Indian cities on Friday, killing at least 8 people, CNN-IBN TV reported. The near-simultaneous blasts detonated in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad, all in Uttar Pradesh state.Citing information supplied by authorities, CNN-IBN reported five killed outside courts in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi, where there were two blasts.
CNN-IBN reported three were killed outside a Faizabad criminal court with a bicycle being used in that incident. There was no one killed in a blast outside civil courts in Lucknow, the state capital, according to IBN.
According to a report from the Associated Press, the blasts may have been targeted at lawyers who were among the dead and wounded in the blasts at the court complexes.
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