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New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry tonight sounded a nation-wide alert following the serial bomb blasts in Jaipur killing over 60 people and injuring scores.
"The Home Ministry is keeping a close watch on the situation in the Pink City," a senior MHA official said, as quoted by PTI.
Meanwhile both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pratibha Patil have condemned the terrorist attack in Jaipur.
Senior Home Ministry officials, including Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta, immediately got in touch with the state government and asked them to beef up security arrangements.
Terrorists set off six bomb blasts at crowded markets in the Walled City within a span of ten minutes killing and wounding several people.
Meanwhile bomb data squad of the elite National Security Guards has been rushed to the Pink City.
