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At least seven people are reported to have been killed in an explosion on a train in the Indian city of Bombay (Mumbai).

At least 50 others were injured.

Police officials say the blast was caused by a bomb.

Bombay, India's commercial centre, has been the target of a number of bomb attacks in recent months.

'Roof blown off'

One of the passengers on the train was Kirit Somaiya, a politician in the Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

"Part of the roof has been blown off. Seven people have been killed and 22 have been taken to hospital," he told the private Aaj Tak television station.

Another witness, Pratiksha Naik, went to the scene just after the blast.

"I saw police helping passengers smeared in blood out of the train," she said, the Associated Press news agency reports.

"It's a bomb blast. At least seven people are dead and 15 people are injured," a police official told the Reuters news agency.

Protection

In January, about 30 people were injured by a bomb blast in a Bombay market.

In December, a bomb on a city bus killed two people and injured about 30 others.

The authorities responded to that attack by ordering the setting up of a force of crack commandos who could respond at short notice to emergencies in the city.

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