NEW DELHI - A huge blast outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital which left eight people dead Monday also damaged the home of India's chief envoy in Islamabad, officials said in New Delhi.
Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna however said Indian ambassador Satyabrata Pal and his staff were not injured in the blast, which shattered almost all the windows in his two-storey residence.
"There has been some damage to the Indian high commissioner's (ambassador's) residence in Islamabad and fortunately, no one in the residence has been hurt in the incident," Sarna said in New Delhi.
Pal's home is located about 200 feet (60 metres) from the blast site where a suicide bomber blew up a car outside the Danish embassy.
The Press Trust of India in a dispatch from Islamabad said the explosion blew a heavy marble top off a table and damaged antiques and other household implements in Pal's official home.
It said all the windows in the fortified building were shattered.
India has so far not reacted to the suicide attack, which some Pakistani officials have linked to the furore over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed which were reprinted by Danish newspapers.
The bomb badly damaged the Danish mission and a nearby UN agency, and left a crater in the road. Dozens of cars were wrecked by the force of the explosion.
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