A high intensity blast near Karnataka BJP office in Bangalore has injured at least 16 people, including eight police personnel. The incident happened at around 10.20 am. The City Police Commissioner Raghavendra Auradkar told media persons that it is too early to say it was a terrorist attack and investigations have begun. The Director General of Police Lalrokhuma Pachau has however confirmed that explosive was used in the blast. It is suspected that timer was used to trigger the explosion in a bike parked between cars, two wheelers and a police van. The blast has caused severe damage to the vehicles parked next to it. Several vehicles, including a police van, were gutted in the explosion that also damaged some houses in the vicinity, Bomb squads and disaster management teams have rushed to the spot.