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Two foreigners among nine killed in Pune blast

Updated on: 14 February,2010 07:03 PM IST  | 
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Two foreigners - an Italian woman and an Iranian student - were among the nine people killed in the Pune eatery blast, the city police chief said here on Sunday.

Two foreigners among nine killed in Pune blast

Two foreigners - an Italian woman and an Iranian student - were among the nine people killed in the Pune eatery blast, the city police chief said here on Sunday.


The two foreign nationals were identified as Nadia Materini, 37, who was associated with the Osho Ashram nearby, and Saeed Abdul Ghani, 26, a student of Symbiosis College, Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh said at a press conference.


A third unidentified body among the killed was of Gokul Nepali, a waiter at the German Bakery where the blast took place at 6.52pm, the police official said.


He added that 60 people were injured in the blast of whom 41 were still in hospital under treatment.

The explosive was kept in a blue and red "haversack", he said.

List of those killed in German Bakery terror attack
1. P Sundari, 22, of Hyderabad
2. Anik, 24 and Anandi Dar, 19, brother-sister from Kolkata,
3. Vinita Gadani, 22, of Mumbai
4. Shilpa Goenka, 23, of Kolkata
5. Shankar Pansare, 40, of Pune,
6. Gokul Nepali (waiter in the German Bakery)
7. Saeed Abdul Ghani, 26, Iranian (student in Symbiosis)
8. Nadia Materini, 37, Italian

Injured - 60 injured (46 male, 14 female). Nineteen (14 males, 5 female) discharged and 41 still in hospital. 12 foreign nationals (5 Iranians, 1 Yemeni, 2 Sudanese, 2 Nepalis, 1 Taiwanese, 1 German) among the injured

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