Word: sarojini
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...have been softer targets. Police?who received a warning of the attacks 20 minutes before the initial blast?said the first bomb was driven by scooter or rickshaw into Paharganj, a run-down food-and-clothes bazaar containing a handful of backpacker hostels. The second was planted in the Sarojini Nagar market, a ramshackle collection of open-air stalls crammed with knock-off designer wear and cheap plastic knick-knacks. Both areas were favorites of lower-middle-class Indians. And when the devices were detonated, between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m., both places were packed with families...
...shop-owners in Paharganj-a congested zone of cheap backpacker hotels and clothing and fabric stores, just off New Delhi's main railway station. A bomb went off this evening in a busy intersection in Paharganj, killing at 16 people and injuring 60. (An explosion in the Sarojini district may have killed 39; another bomb went off in a bus in south Delhi; while police defused another in Chandi Chowk.) Chawla's handicrafts store is just meters away from the epicenter of the blast, which took place in an intersection packed with shoppers-including women and children-doing last-minute...