 The restaurant was packed with diners at the time of the blast |
At least eight people have been killed and 33 others wounded in a bomb attack on a restaurant in India's western city of Pune, officials say.
The explosion tore through the German Bakery, which is popular with tourists, in Koregaon Park.
Maharashtra state officials said the blast was caused by a bomb.
The nationalities of the dead are not known. At least four foreigners are among the injured, Maharashtra's home affairs minister said.
The explosion at the restaurant, on North Main Road, happened at about 1900 (1330 GMT), when it was packed with diners.
"We heard a big noise and we all rushed out. The impact was so much that there were tiny body parts everywhere," Vinod Dhale, who works at the restaurant, told Reuters news agency.
Anti-terror squad officers have gone to the scene.
"There has been a bomb blast," senior police official Rajendra Sonawane said.
"There was an abandoned bag which seems to have contained some IED [improvised explosive device]."
Initial reports suggested a gas cylinder had exploded.
The German Bakery is near the Osho Ashram, a mystic centre popular with visitors to Pune.
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