MUMBAI BOMB BLASTS : SIX IM OPERATION SUSPECTED

The ATS team that is probing 13 July Mumbai bomb blasts suspects involvement of at least six newly recruited members of the Indian Mujahideen terrorist outfit. It also suspects that the operatives might have links with Gujarat and West Bengal.

Speaking to the media, an ATS official said "During our meetings with the various security agencies including NIA, there was an unanimous opinion that there could be at least six accused who must have been involved in the operation of placing the explosives at the (three) sites." They all must have been newly recruited in the terror outfit responsible for the blasts, the official said adding they might have gone to the sites in pairs. The perpetrators of the blasts had kept explosives in a tiffin box at Zaveri Bazaar while the nature of metallic containers in which the bombs were kept at Dadar and Opera house is not yet clear. "We have a reason to believe that the terrorists could have strong links with Gujarat and Kolkata," the officer said refusing to divulge further details.