India detains four over restaurant bombing: police

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

MUMBAI — Four people have been taken into custody in connection with a deadly bomb blast at a restaurant in western India at the weekend, police said Tuesday, as they raised the death toll to 10.

The four were detained as part of the investigation into the attack on the popular German Bakery restaurant in Pune, the city's police commissioner Satyapal Singh told reporters.

The domestic Press Trust of India news agency said one of the suspects was picked up in Pune, while the other was arrested in the neighbouring industrial township of Pimpri.

Television news channels said the two others were detained in Aurangabad, about 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Pune.



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1. How tragic... They had barely made the first step on the road to peace.

The bombing was the first major strike on Indian soil since the assault on Mumbai in November 2008 and came just a day after India and Pakistan agreed to resume dialogue with a meeting between their foreign secretaries.

The government has so far refused to confirm media speculation that an India-based Islamist group, the Indian Mujahideen, was responsible for the attack.

The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for a series of bombings in New Delhi in September 2008.

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[maddezmom]

3. Unknown Pak group behind Pune blast: Paper

New Delhi: An unknown Pakistan-based terror group, the Lashkar-e-Taiba Al Alami (LeT-international), on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the bombing in a Pune eatery which killed 10 people Saturday.


A person identifying himself as Abu Jindal, the spokesman of the group, called an Islamabad-based Indian journalist and claimed that they carried out the attack because of "two reasons".


India's "refusal" to discuss Kashmir in the forthcoming talks with Pakistan and New Delhi's "alliance" with the US, the caller told the journalist.


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He said the group had split the Lashkar-e-Taiba because it took orders from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence.


There were no more details about the group but the caller told the Indian scribe that the Pune attack was carried out with the help of its "sources" in India.


http://ibnlive.in.com/news/unknown-pak-group-behind-pune-blast-paper/110244-3.html?from=tn