HYDERABAD, Oct 1: The chief minister of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and three other people were wounded in a bomb blast in a temple town on Wednesday, officials said.

The blast occurred near the convoy of Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu in Tirupati, on the way to a revered Hindu shrine at Tirumala, a police officer said.

“The chief minister is safe and he is out of danger,” Devender Goud, the state’s interior minister told reporters.

Police said earlier the chief minister was not hurt in the attack that came as about 40,000 people gathered at the hilltop shrine for an annual festival.

The three other wounded people, one state minister and two members of the state assembly, were seriously hurt, Mr Goud said.—Reuters