(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) New Delhi May 01 - Two explosions on a train killed a woman and wounded nine people two of them critically at a station in the southern Indian city of Chennai on Thursday morning.
Sources say a man who was hiding in the train is being questioned.
The blasts took place at around 7:15 am local time in two sleeper coaches of the Guwahati-Bangalore Express which had just pulled into platform 9 of the station for a 10-minute stop.
One of the bombs exploded under the seat of a woman who was killed instantly. Officials said she was traveling from Bangalore to Vijayawada. Her relatives have been called to Chennai according to (NDTV).
"They were minor intensity blasts. Experts from Delhi will be sent to investigate" said Union Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge.
"We heard a very loud explosion. It was only after the police came that we realised what had happened" said a passenger on the train.
A National Investigation Agency team is going to Chennai to join the investigations. There has been tight security across India as it nears the end of staggered voting for the national election.
The station was cordoned off after the blasts and scores of police personnel along with sniffer dogs checked the platforms and coaches.
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