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Blast witness claims to have seen bomber

TimePublished on Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:51, Updated on Fri, May 16, 2008 at 13:15 in India section

A LEAD: The boy says soon after the suspect left the bicycle, the blast took place.

A LEAD: The boy says soon after the suspect left the bicycle, the blast took place.


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    Jaipur: Rajasthan police have got fresh leads into the serial bomb blasts that shook Jaipur on Tuesday.

    A red Maruti Esteem car with a Delhi registration number has been seized from the railway station. The car had been lying unclaimed at the station since May 4.

    Meanwhile, one of the injured eyewitnesses says he's seen one of the suspects.

    The 13-year-old boy injured in the serial blasts, says he recognises one of the four suspects whose sketches have been released by the police.

    He told the police the person had parked a cycle near Hawa Mahal about one-and-half hours before the blasts took place.

    "When I saw the sketches in the newspaper, I recognised the men who left the bicycles at the blast site. The hair looks different but everything else is the same. We were sitting outside our house, opposite the Hawa Mahal, as there was a power cut. One of the men was wearing a blue shirt and black pant. After leaving the cycles they walked off. Soon after, the blast happened," claims the teenager.

    Police sources have also told CNN-IBN the bombs were planted three-four hours before the blasts took place.

    The three suspects whose sketches were released on Thursday are between the ages of 18 and 25, two of them of average height and athletic built while the third suspect is tall.

    Earlier police had released a sketch of another suspect on Wednesday.

    All the sketches have been made on the basis of descriptions given by the owner and assistants of the shop from which the cycles used in the serial blasts were bought.

    In Delhi, too, police questioned three Afghan nationals in connection with the blasts.

    According to police sources, they are also investigating if the blasts were carried out by locals or by Bangladeshi infiltrators.

    According to the initial investigations, the blasts seem to be the handiwork of Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami (HuJI)

    On Wednesday night an e-mail sent to some news channels claimed that Indian Mujahideen, a little-known terror group, carried out the blasts.

    The same group had also claimed responsibility for the bomb blasts that rocked courtrooms across Uttar Pradesh in 2007.

    However, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia rubbished the e-mail and said that it was sent to mislead the investigating agencies.

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