<p>The toll in the serial blasts in the Bihar capital went up to six following the death of a bomber who was seriously injured in an explosion while setting up a bomb, an official said Monday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"A suspected accused (who was) seriously injured in bomb explosion while fitting a timer at Patna railway junction died late Sunday night," Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said.<br /><br />Officials at Patna Medical College and Hospital, where 83 injured in serial blasts were admitted Sunday, said that at present 38 are undergoing treatment.<br /><br />Five are in critical condition and others have been discharged, officials said.<br /><br />Security was tightened in the city a day after six bombs exploded in and around the Gandhi Maidan where Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi addressed a rally hours later and a blast took place at the railway station.<br /><br />Additional security forces have been deployed at all important places including crowded markets to instil a sense of confidence among local people, who panicked after the serial blasts, Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) S.K. Bharadwaj said.<br /><br />He said that the attack was the first in the history of Patna.<br /><br />Maharaj said that National Investigation Agency (NIA) team, which has begun probing into the serial blast, Monday sealed the Gandhi Maidan.<br /><br />The NIA team hopes to collect more evidence from the ground.<br /><br />Another senior police official said that a total of 13 suspected people have been detained including a seriously injured youth from the ground after serial blasts.<br /><br />"All of them have been interrogated by the Bihar police, NIA and IB officials," he said.<br /><br />The first of the supposedly low intensity blasts ripped through a toilet at around 10 a.m. at the newly built Platform 10 of the railway station in the heart of the city, killing one person and wounding another.<br /><br />After an hour, by which time Modi had reached Patna but not the rally ground, four explosions took place inside the Gandhi Maidan, killing four others and causing a lot of panic, police and witnesses said.<br /><br />The Patna railway station is located two-three kilometres from the sprawling Gandhi Maidan.</p>
<p>The toll in the serial blasts in the Bihar capital went up to six following the death of a bomber who was seriously injured in an explosion while setting up a bomb, an official said Monday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"A suspected accused (who was) seriously injured in bomb explosion while fitting a timer at Patna railway junction died late Sunday night," Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said.<br /><br />Officials at Patna Medical College and Hospital, where 83 injured in serial blasts were admitted Sunday, said that at present 38 are undergoing treatment.<br /><br />Five are in critical condition and others have been discharged, officials said.<br /><br />Security was tightened in the city a day after six bombs exploded in and around the Gandhi Maidan where Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi addressed a rally hours later and a blast took place at the railway station.<br /><br />Additional security forces have been deployed at all important places including crowded markets to instil a sense of confidence among local people, who panicked after the serial blasts, Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) S.K. Bharadwaj said.<br /><br />He said that the attack was the first in the history of Patna.<br /><br />Maharaj said that National Investigation Agency (NIA) team, which has begun probing into the serial blast, Monday sealed the Gandhi Maidan.<br /><br />The NIA team hopes to collect more evidence from the ground.<br /><br />Another senior police official said that a total of 13 suspected people have been detained including a seriously injured youth from the ground after serial blasts.<br /><br />"All of them have been interrogated by the Bihar police, NIA and IB officials," he said.<br /><br />The first of the supposedly low intensity blasts ripped through a toilet at around 10 a.m. at the newly built Platform 10 of the railway station in the heart of the city, killing one person and wounding another.<br /><br />After an hour, by which time Modi had reached Patna but not the rally ground, four explosions took place inside the Gandhi Maidan, killing four others and causing a lot of panic, police and witnesses said.<br /><br />The Patna railway station is located two-three kilometres from the sprawling Gandhi Maidan.</p>