Indian Police Capture Four Jihadis Responsible For Hyderabad Bombings
HYDERABAD, India, Sept 2, 2007 (AFP) - Indian police on Sunday named 15 people as participants in the twin bombings in Hyderabad that killed 43 after questioning a man who allegedly confessed to an earlier attack.
Four of the 15 involved in the August 25 attacks at an outdoor auditorium and a popular eatery are already under arrest for alleged roles in other such attacks, police said, adding that the remaining 11 are at large.
‘A case has been registered for criminal conspiracy, waging war against the state and under the Explosive Substances Act,’ Hyderabad police commissioner Balwinder Singh said in a statement of the 15 suspects.
Singh said the 15 were named on the basis of a confession made by Shaik Abdul Nayeem, alias Sameer, who was arrested in April last year trying to cross the border from Bangladesh into India, the Hindu newspaper reported.
He later reportedly confessed to a role in the July 2006 serial train blasts in Mumbai that killed 186, the Hindu said, as well as links to terror networks and explosives smuggling.
Singh named Shahid Bilal, whose name came up in earlier similar attacks in India, as the alleged mastermind of last month’s bombings.
Bilal is on the run and is believed to be working for the Bangladesh-based militant outfit Harkatul Jihad Al-Islami (HuJi). Singh said three of the suspects at large are Bangladeshi.
Police said the explosive was smuggled into Hyderabad in February under Bilal’s orders.
The police suspect that some of the explosives may also have been used in the bombing of a mosque in Hyderabad in May, in which 11 people were killed.
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