India | Posted on Feb 21, 2008 at 02:15am IST

Mumbai: Blast in theatre screening Jodhaa Akbar

IANS

Mumbai: A bomb blast ripped through a cinema theatre in Panvel town near Mumbai on Wednesday evening when it was screening Jodhaa Akbar, police officials told IANS.

There were no casualties.

The blast occurred when the afternoon show was about to end at the Cineraj theatre in Thane district's Panvel, about 100 km from Mumbai.

There were no casualties in the blast, according to preliminary reports and police said investigations were on.

In a precautionary move, another theatre in the locality was evacuated and searched by a bomb detection squad and sniffer dogs. The police were combing the whole area for suspicious things.

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