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Mumbai
blasts: Suspect's sketch being prepared
Claiming to have secured "solid leads" in the 13/7 blasts here, a
top Mumbai police officer said Saturday that the investigations
are now moving in "a certain direction" and the sketch of a
suspect will be ready soon.
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Delhi/Mumbai: Investigators looking into the July 13
bombings in Mumbai have extended their probe to various parts of
the country as they intensify the hunt for clues leading to those
behind the terror attack, informed sources said Monday.
Five days after the triple blasts, which killed 19 and injured
129, sources close to the investigation said forensic sleuths were
also trying to decipher the exact make of the detonators used to
trigger the bombs made of ammonium nitrate, fuel oil (ANFO) and
ball bearings.
What is known is that the blasts were triggered by using timers
and not remote controlled devices.
"But what timer device it was is still not known. It could be
clock timers, it could be mobile phones alarms, it could be any
other timer device, mechanical, chemical or digital," said a home
ministry source in New Delhi.
Sources familiar with the probe process said the identification of
the timer device was crucial because it would help investigators
establish a pattern and trace similarities, if any, to previous
attacks.
This would give the investigation a definite angle and maybe point
to the outfit behind the blasts.
The homegrown Islamist militant outfit, the Indian Mujahideen, has
used timer devices of various kinds to trigger blasts in many
Indian cities, an expert said.
Though authorities have refrained from naming any terror outfit,
sources told IANS that the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS)
and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had raided various
places for suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives.
They have also questioned some arrested activists of the outfit in
jails in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh.
An NIA team questioned Jalees Ansari, convicted for his alleged
role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, in an Ajmer jail.
Ansari, an expert in handling explosives, is serving a life term.
The sources said he could have possibly helped the perpetrators to
make the bombs.
An NIA team is also likely to visit Bihar where police have taken
into custody two suspected operatives of the Harkat ul
Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) Riyaz ul Sarkar and Aftab Alam.
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