High-tech firms, the Indian space agency and nuclear facilities stepped up security Friday after an unknown group threatened suicide attacks against a top politician and New Year’s revelers in India’s technology hub, officials said. Police set up barricades, patrolled streets and searched cars in Bangalore, trying to thwart possible bombings, said the police chief of southern Karnataka state, B.S. Sial. Officers were also looking for an assailant who opened fire two days earlier at a science institute in the city, killing a retired professor. A letter from a previously unknown militant group was faxed to several newspapers late Thursday threatening a series of suicide bombings in Bangalore, the state’s capital, Sial said.Full Story
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