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07-27-2008, 02:47 AM
Summary:
# NEW: Islamic military group claims responsibility for 17 bombings
# At least 88 people wounded as blasts strike within 70 minutes of one another
# Muslim militant group Indian Mujahedeen reportedly claims responsibility
# Attacks an effort to cause panic, 'unsettle the country,' official says
(CNN) -- The death toll from the bomb blasts that hit the western Indian city of Ahmedabad has risen to at least 37, city police told CNN on Sunday.
The number of injured also has gone up -- from 88 to at least 162, they added.
All metropolitan areas in India were on high alert, a day after 17 blasts of low intensity went off within a span of 70 minutes and a 6-mile (10-km) radius in eastern Ahmedabad.
One explosion hit a bus stop, while others detonated at a railway station and on a bus. Several also went off at or near hospitals where the injured were being taken.
Authorities traced an e-mail claiming responsibility for the blasts to an apartment in Mumbai, 338 miles (545 km) away, and raided it, CNN's sister network CNN-IBN reported on Sunday.
No arrest has been made, although police reportedly rounded up 30 individuals in connection with the blasts, CNN-IBN added.
The network was among several media outlets and the country's Intelligence Bureau to receive an email, purportedly from the Muslim militant group Indian Mujahedeen, warning about an attack. VideoWatch how the media was tipped »
The group has claimed responsibility for two similar attacks in the past nine months in northern India.
But afterward, the Islamic militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJi) -- or the Movement of the Islamic Holy War -- claimed responsibility for the bombings, CNN-IBN said.
View a video about this. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/26/india.blasts/index.html?iref=mpstoryview)
# NEW: Islamic military group claims responsibility for 17 bombings
# At least 88 people wounded as blasts strike within 70 minutes of one another
# Muslim militant group Indian Mujahedeen reportedly claims responsibility
# Attacks an effort to cause panic, 'unsettle the country,' official says
(CNN) -- The death toll from the bomb blasts that hit the western Indian city of Ahmedabad has risen to at least 37, city police told CNN on Sunday.
The number of injured also has gone up -- from 88 to at least 162, they added.
All metropolitan areas in India were on high alert, a day after 17 blasts of low intensity went off within a span of 70 minutes and a 6-mile (10-km) radius in eastern Ahmedabad.
One explosion hit a bus stop, while others detonated at a railway station and on a bus. Several also went off at or near hospitals where the injured were being taken.
Authorities traced an e-mail claiming responsibility for the blasts to an apartment in Mumbai, 338 miles (545 km) away, and raided it, CNN's sister network CNN-IBN reported on Sunday.
No arrest has been made, although police reportedly rounded up 30 individuals in connection with the blasts, CNN-IBN added.
The network was among several media outlets and the country's Intelligence Bureau to receive an email, purportedly from the Muslim militant group Indian Mujahedeen, warning about an attack. VideoWatch how the media was tipped »
The group has claimed responsibility for two similar attacks in the past nine months in northern India.
But afterward, the Islamic militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJi) -- or the Movement of the Islamic Holy War -- claimed responsibility for the bombings, CNN-IBN said.
View a video about this. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/26/india.blasts/index.html?iref=mpstoryview)