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3 suspects arrested
in Mumbai blasts case
NEW DELHI, July 21
(Xinhua) -- A joint team of Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the
Intelligence Bureau (IB) has arrested three suspects in
connection with the Mumbai train bombings occurred last week,
a local official said on Friday.
"This is the first
arrests in the case of Mumbai blasts and this is a major
breakthrough in the investigation a week after the blasts,"
the official said.
Two of the men were
arrested in the northern state of Bihar on Thursday evening
while the third man was arrested in Mumbai on Friday morning,
Indo-Asian News Service quoted the official as saying, adding
that half kg of explosive was found in the possession of one
of them.
Backgrounder: Major
bomb attacks in India in recent years
Mumbai police suspects LeT
in train blasts
MUMBAI,
India, July 13 (Xinhua) -- The Mumbai police said Thursday
they have found a strong Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) link in
Tuesday's train blasts that killed 183 people and injured
hundreds more.
"Evidence
suggests the LeT has a strong link with the blasts," said K.V.
Raghuvanshi, joint commissioner of police (Anti-Terrorist
Squad - ATS).
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