IED event in India on Mon 8th May 2023

Police in northern India have arrested five suspects in connection with a series of homemade bomb explosions this week near Amritsar’s Golden Temple, the holiest shrine in Sikhism. Gaurav Yadav, police deputy commissioner in the state of Punjab, told a news conference Thursday that the blasts on May 6, May 8 and near midnight on May 10 occurred outside the temple, which houses Sikhism’s holy scripture. In the first incident last Saturday, one of the suspects detonated a makeshift bomb containing about 200 grams of explosives after lowering it in a bag from the top of a building, he said. The second bomb was detonated in a similar way in the dawn hours of Monday, he added. Police did not provide further details of the third explosion, or confirm the total number of injuries. CNN affiliate CNN News-18 reported there was at least one injury from the first explosion, and six injuries from the second blast.