<p>Was some area in poll-bound Andhra Pradesh the real target of the two bombs that exploded in Chennai Central railway station early today?<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Except Seemandhra, Lok Sabha elections in the entire South India is over. The bombs exploded in two compartments of a train that travels through the area where elections are yet to be held. We are not sure, but there is a possibility...," a Home Ministry official told PTI.<br /><br />The Bangalore-Guwahati train, in which the two low- intensity bombs exploded, traverses coastal Andhra Pradesh where Lok Sabha elections will be held on May 7.<br /><br />The train is said to have been late by at least two hours when it arrived in Chennai this morning. If the blasts were triggered by a timer device, then actually the explosion could have taken place somewhere in the coastal region of southern Andhra Pradesh.<br /><br />The scheduled stops of the express train in Andhra Pradesh are Ongole, Vijayawada, Rajahmundry, Vishakapatnam, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, Palasa -- all located in Seemandhra region where polling is slated next Wednesday.<br /><br />After Chennai, the next stop of the train was Ongole in Andhra Pradesh.<br /><br />A woman was killed and 14 others injured, two of them critically, when two low-intensity bombs exploded in a span of five minutes on two coaches of the Bangalore-Guwahati train at the busy Chennai Central Railway station today.<br /><br />This was perhaps for the first time in years that bombs were exploded in Chennai.<br /><br />The last major explosion took place in Tamil Nadu was in 1998 when 12 bombs burst in different places in Coimbatore killing nearly 60 people and injuring over 200 others.<br /><br />The Tamil Nadu government ordered a probe by its special CB-CID wing as police detained a suspect in connection with the blasts. </p>
<p>Was some area in poll-bound Andhra Pradesh the real target of the two bombs that exploded in Chennai Central railway station early today?<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Except Seemandhra, Lok Sabha elections in the entire South India is over. The bombs exploded in two compartments of a train that travels through the area where elections are yet to be held. We are not sure, but there is a possibility...," a Home Ministry official told PTI.<br /><br />The Bangalore-Guwahati train, in which the two low- intensity bombs exploded, traverses coastal Andhra Pradesh where Lok Sabha elections will be held on May 7.<br /><br />The train is said to have been late by at least two hours when it arrived in Chennai this morning. If the blasts were triggered by a timer device, then actually the explosion could have taken place somewhere in the coastal region of southern Andhra Pradesh.<br /><br />The scheduled stops of the express train in Andhra Pradesh are Ongole, Vijayawada, Rajahmundry, Vishakapatnam, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, Palasa -- all located in Seemandhra region where polling is slated next Wednesday.<br /><br />After Chennai, the next stop of the train was Ongole in Andhra Pradesh.<br /><br />A woman was killed and 14 others injured, two of them critically, when two low-intensity bombs exploded in a span of five minutes on two coaches of the Bangalore-Guwahati train at the busy Chennai Central Railway station today.<br /><br />This was perhaps for the first time in years that bombs were exploded in Chennai.<br /><br />The last major explosion took place in Tamil Nadu was in 1998 when 12 bombs burst in different places in Coimbatore killing nearly 60 people and injuring over 200 others.<br /><br />The Tamil Nadu government ordered a probe by its special CB-CID wing as police detained a suspect in connection with the blasts. </p>