2014 Church street blast may have IS links: NIA
According to NIA investigators, the 2014 Church street blasts in Bengaluru may be the first terror attack in India linked to the Islamic State. Investigators claimed that Alamzeb Afridi, arrested for links to the blast, had been radicalised by the IS months before the blast. Afridi is also linked to the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts which killed 56, they added.