Seven bombs kill 80 in Indian tourist city

Seven near-simultaneous bomb blasts tore through crowded markets in the Indian tourist city of Jaipur Tuesday, killing at least 80 people and wounding 150 in what police said was a terror attack.

"We have information that 80 people have died," Rajasthan state home minister Gulab Chand Kataria was quoted by AFP as telling reporters.

"One suspect was detained and is being investigated," he added in Jaipur, the state capital.

One of the explosions went off near a packed Hindu temple, leaving pools of blood outside in the street and cycles and rickshaws in a mangled heap, television pictures showed.

Among the 80 dead were a 10-year-old boy at the Hanuman (monkey god) temple, a bride in a bright red saree still wearing marriage bangles and a young man covered in blood who was left hanging over the twisted wreckage of a bicycle rickshaw, the Press Trust of India said.

"We will not tolerate such activities at all," said Vasundhara Raje, chief minister of the desert state.