Shinde orders probe into Bangalore blast

The central government has ordered an inquiry into the blast near the BJP's office in Bangalore, union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Wednesday.

"I have ordered an inquiry. The secretary home department will look into it," Shinde told reporters here.

Sixteen people were injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion in a congested locality near the office of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Karnataka capital.