Bomb explosions in the Indian city of Bombay have killed at least three people and injured more than 15 others. The blasts came on the eve of voting in the city in the general election.

Police say the first explosion killed one person instantly at Kandivali station, in the northwest of the city. The bomb had been placed under a seat on a crowded platform.

Later there was a blast near a police station in the central Bombay district of Bandra in which another two people died. It is not yet clear who was behind the attacks.

One more person died and one was injured when the third bomb went off minutes later, near a school at Virar, a Bombay suburb north of the city centre.

The three blasts went off within the space of three hours.

Police said they defused a bomb carried by the colleague of a man who set off the first explosion.

No organisation has yet claimed responsibility for the explosions.

Voters in 131 of India's 543 parliamentary constituencies are scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday.

The three earlier rounds of general elections have been marred by violence in which more than 130 people have died.
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