At least 32 people were killed and more than 70 injured when two bombs exploded as hundreds of Muslims poured out of a mosque and graveyard in western India, the federal government announced.
One bomb carried on the back of a bicycle went off as the left the Nurani mosque in the rural town of Malegaon, 260km northeast of Mumbai, the home ministry said.
The mosque was packed for Friday prayers on the festival of Shab-e-Barat.
Television pictures showed men and boys trampling on bloodied bodies as they battled to escape through the tunnel entrance to the walled mosque compound.
The panicked crowds stumbled and jumped over bodies strewn across the tunnel entrance.
Police said one blast was heard at 1:50pm (09.20am Irish time) near a graveyard on a day when Muslims traditionally remember their ancestors and offer prayers at their graves.
It is a key date ahead of the start of the holy month of Ramadan.
The blasts came days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that intelligence agencies had warned of more terrorist attacks across the country, possibly on economic and religious targets as well as on nuclear installations.
