Group claims killer blasts
2005-10-30 11:32
Srinagar - An unknown group calling itself Inquilab (revolution) on Sunday claimed responsibility for three blasts in New Delhi which killed 61 people, in calls to reporters in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian Kashmir.
Experts have prepared a sketch of an Asian male who reportedly left a steel pressure cooker near a gas cylinder in the middle-class Sarojini Nagar market, where most of the deaths occurred during Saturday's three blasts.
"Pieces of metal from what appear to be a (pressure) cooker suggest that it was the container of a bomb designed to ignite inflammables which were in great abundance at the market," a source from the National Security Guard commando said.
At least 188 people were injured after the explosions rocked the Sarojini Nagar and Paharganj markets, filled with shoppers for the Hindu festival of Diwali, as well as a bus in the city's Okhla industrial district.
- AFP