3 arrested in Bombay train bombings probe
(AP)
Updated: 2006-07-21 11:40
Indian police investigating the Bombay train bombings have arrested three
men, the first arrests in the case, India's NDTV news channel reported Friday.
An unidentified man
lights a candle in memory of the people who died in the July 11 bomb
blasts in Bombay, in Patna, India, Tuesday, July 18, 2006. The blasts
killed 207 people and injured more than 800.
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Police were interrogating the men over their role in the July 11 bombings
that killed 207 people and wounded more than 800, NDTV reported.
Police could not immediately be reached.
Two of the men were arrested in the northern state of Bihar late Thursday and
the third man was arrested in Bombay early Friday, NDTV said, quoting police
sources.
Investigators have detained hundreds of people across the country for
questioning since the bombings, but these three are the first to be formally
arrested. The men were set to appear in a Bombay court later Friday, NDTV said.
Police and officials have repeatedly suggested Islamic militants fighting
Indian rule in Kashmir — namely the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba — are
behind the blasts.
Kashmir is a predominantly Muslim Himalayan territory divided between India
and Pakistan, and is claimed in entirety by both nuclear-armed countries.
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