Five bombs through commercial areas of the Indian capital New Delhi, a few minutes ripped apart, killing at least 20 people, police said.
The explosions, which also wounded 90 people, does not seem very powerful but happened in crowded areas have.
Four bombs were also found and defused, police said.
More than 400 people since the bombings in October 2005, died in Indian cities like Ahmedabad and Bangalore.
India has accused militants of the Islamist groups for these previous bombings.
News from CNN-IBN local television, said he had received an e-mail before the attacks of a group that "Indian Mujahideen".
"Do what you can do. Stop when you can e-mail reportedly said.
The same group claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks in the past.
The Indian government has put security services on alert.
Pakistan has joined the official condemnation of India for the attacks.
Chaotic scenes
Two bombs were planted in dustbins meters apart in the commercial district of Connaught Place.
Police believe at least three other devices at busy markets in Karol Bagh area have been planted on the road and Barakhamba Kailash area.
Chanchal Kumar helped several victims to ambulances after witnessing one of the explosions, outside a metro station.
"By 1830, he heard a loud noise, then saw people running everywhere," Reuters quoted him as saying.
"It is approximately 100 to 200 people were here."
Gulab Singh, a protective tube saw an explosion in Greater Kailash.
"I came out of a cup of tea when everything turned black in front of me," he was quoted by news agency AFP. "Then everyone started running."
Television showed scenes of chaos at the scene of the explosion. The crowd milled around mangled vehicles, rubble and bloodshed in the streets.
"The enemies of humanity"
The mayor of New Delhi, Arti Mehra, said the city can not be intimidated by the "cowardly" attacks.
"You want to break the spirit of New Delhi," he told reporters.
"You have tried other places before and have failed and will not succeed here. We have no fear."
New Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, "sharply condemned" the bombing, expressing "shock and grief over the loss of precious human life."
After the attacks in Jaipur and Bangalore, a group that the Indian Mujahideen and the responsibility.
Although it is too early to say what caused Saturday blasts in New Delhi, which are similar to previous attacks.
The earlier attacks involved multiple small devices hidden in boxes or bags and aimed at soft targets such as crowded markets, say analysts.
Features such as shrapnel contained nuts, bolts and ball bearings while the explosives used improvised. Islamists in Kashmir tend to use military explosives.
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