Mumbai authorities Saturday declared high alert in India's financial capital following the three blasts that rocked New Delhi, killing at least 55 people.

Security personnel have been deployed at sensitive and vulnerable locations in Mumbai, where weekend revelers and festive shoppers were likely to congregate.

"We have taken enough steps to tackle the situation. Our forces are on alert and bomb detection squads are also ready for any eventuality," Indo-Asian News quoted a police commissioner as saying.

Authorities had initiated precautionary steps earlier this week after they had received alerts from intelligence agencies.

Security was stepped up at important locations like the US and Israeli consulates, the American Center in the Cuff Parade area, the government secretariat at Nariman Point in south Mumbai and Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's residence in the western suburb of Bandra, officials said.

The elite anti-terrorist squad was providing security covers for all these locations as well as religious places like the Siddhi Vinayak Temple in central Mumbai's Prabhadevi area.

Additional barricades and sand bunkers have been installed to foil any attempt by suicide bombers, officials added.

Source: Xinhua