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Was the Indian bomb meant for Chabad?

February 18, 2010 15:05
Indian police inspect the bakery destroyed in a bomb last weekend

ByAnonymous, Anonymous

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Security officials are not ruling out the possibility that Chabad House was the real target of the bombing in India last weekend, as it was opposite the bakery which was destroyed.

Eight people were killed and scores were injured when a bomb ripped through a popular restaurant in Pune, east of Mumbai, last Saturday evening. The German bakery was located just a few metres from the Chabad-Lubavitch centre across the street.

"We recognised the sound of the bomb - it was like a Katyusha rocket sent from Hamas," said Rabbi Betzalel Kupchik. "We thought it may be a gas blast. A few minutes later we get the information it was a terror attack.

"When we found out there were no Jewish or Israeli victims, it was like Purim. Five minutes before the blast some Israelis were headed there, but they came into Chabad House instead."