Deadly blasts rock Indian cities

Deadly blasts rock Indian cities - CNN.com: "NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Blasts were detonated outside courts in three northern Indian cities on Friday, killing at least 8 people, CNN-IBN TV reported.

The near-simultaneous blasts detonated in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad, all in Uttar Pradesh state.

Citing information supplied by authorities, CNN-IBN reported five killed outside courts in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi, where there were two blasts.

CNN-IBN reported three were killed outside a Faizabad criminal court with a bicycle being used in that incident. There was no one killed in a blast outside civil courts in Lucknow, the state capital, according to IBN.

According to a report from the Associated Press, the blasts may have been targeted at lawyers who were among the dead and wounded in the blasts at the court complexes.

The AP report cited Brij Lal, a top official in Uttar Pradesh, that at least two of those bombs were attached to bicycles, police said.

In Faizabad, a pair of bombs killed three lawyers and injured 10 to 12 more, said Lal. One of the bombs was rigged to a motorcycle, said R.N. Singh, a local police officer.

Lal told AP that at least 40 people were believed to have been injured, most of them lawyers.

In August, at least 44 people were killed and scores were wounded in bombings in the southern city of Hyderabad. Those were described as terror attacks carried out by Islamic militants