Victims of a May bombing at an Indian restaurant near Toronto have alleged in a civil lawsuit that a "turf war between rival business associates" led to the attack. Six of the 15 victims in the blast are seeking a total of CAD 6 million (USD 4.6 million) from the owners of the Bombay Bhel restaurant for "severe and permanent injuries," saying in court documents that the proprietors "knew or ought to have known that it was targeted directly for bombing."

Their lawyer Darryl Singer told a press conference yesterday that the restaurant owners "ought to have been more alert to protecting their patrons." He declined, however, to provide details about the source of the information, and the allegations must still be proven in court. The eatery in a Mississauga, Ontario strip mall that is surrounded by houses, grassy fields and condominium towers under construction was popular among local Indo-Canadians. In a statement, the plaintiffs said they were simply "in the wrong place at the wrong time" and ended up as "carnage in a turf war between individuals we did not even know."