Twin blasts at Chennai raliway station killed woman, several injured

At least one passenger was killed and nine others were injured in two bomb blasts in two coaches of the Guwahati-Bangalore train, minutes after it entered the Chennai railway station here Thursday, an official said.

The official said the 22-year-old woman passenger, a resident of Andhra Pradesh, was killed, while nine others were injured, two of them grievously, in the Chennai Central Railway Station blast.

The blasts took place in two coaches - S4 and S5 - of the train at around 7.15 a.m., barely 10 minutes after it had arrived at the railway station, the official added.

The injured have been taken to a hospital

Localites say that one person died while another is in critical state. More than 15 people in coach s4 and s5 are believed to have injured in the blast.