This is really sad. What has the world and India come to?

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – Nearly simultaneous blasts outside courts in three northern Indian cities killed at least 10 people in what a senior government official said were terrorist strikes.

Police said the blasts were reported from Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad, all in the populous state of Uttar Pradesh.

Brij Lal, a senior state police officer, told local television that 10 people had been killed; three in Faizabad and seven in Varanasi.

There was no report of any casualties in Lucknow.

“I believe it is the handiwork of groups who are trying to spread terror in our country,” junior Home Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal told reporters.

Read more at Reuters and NDTV.

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