Summary Thousands of people were in Patna for a campaign rally by Narendra Modi.
PATNA, India (AP) - A series of small explosions erupted across the capital of an east Indian state on Sunday, hours before the main opposition party's prime ministerial candidate was to give a campaign speech in a nearby park. One person was killed and several were injured, police said.
Bomb disposal and forensic teams were investigating at least five small blasts in Patna, the capital of Bihar state. Police detained one man for questioning, but did not say whether he was a suspect.
The first blast came from a crude bomb that exploded in a public toilet building on an isolated railway platform, Patna district police chief Manu Maharaj said. A man who was wounded in the blast later died in a hospital.
Another bomb reportedly went off near a movie theater. At least four people were injured, but there were unconfirmed reports of more being taken to private clinics for treatment.
"All the bombs produced low-intensity blasts," Maharaj said.
At least two unexploded bombs were found around the railway station and were being defused, railway police superintendent Upendra Kumar Sinha said.
Thousands of people were in Patna for a campaign rally by Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.
His plans to visit Bihar have been controversial since the state's highest elected leader, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, severed ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party six months ago in protest over Modi's candidacy. Kumar has questioned Modi's secular credentials and suggested that he could exacerbate communal tensions between Hindus and Muslims in India.
