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Group linked to al-Qaeda is main suspect in Indian train bombings

INDIAN government agents are centring their investigations into Tuesday's mass train bombings in Mumbai on two of the groups blamed for the training of the 7/7 London bombers.

The prime suspect is Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) - a group with strong links to al-Qaeda - which was set up with the assistance of the Pakistani intelligence services a decade ago as a Kashmiri separatist organisation.

It has since expanded on to the international stage and members have been arrested in the UK, the US and Australia. One of the London 7/7 bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, is believed to have stayed at a madrassa run by LeT in Mudrike, outside Lahore.

As the death toll rose above 200 yesterday, the chief of police in the state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai - the former Bombay - is the capital, said the attack looked like the work of the LeT. Other Indian security sources also identified LeT as the prime suspect, but the group denied any role in what it called the "inhuman and barbaric acts".

About 700 people were also wounded after seven bomb blasts blew apart railway carriages and stations packed with commuters in Mumbai on Tuesday. The explosions happened just hours after a series of grenade attacks on tourists in Srinagar, capital of Indian Kashmir, in which eight people died. Another grenade explosion at a mountain resort in Kashmir yesterday wounded five tourists.

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