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Experts doubt use of RDX in blasts
Tribune News Service

Mumbai, July 14
Investigators probing the serial blasts are tying themselves in knots over the explosive used on Tuesday. While officials on Thursday insisted that RDX was used, today they claimed that other explosives like dynamite or ammonium nitrate may have been used as well.

A section of the police has even been quoted as saying that local groups other than the Lashkar-e-Toiba might have carried out the blasts.

Meanwhile, investigators are still clueless about the identity of the persons who could have actually planted the bombs in the local trains.

The sketches of three suspects have been released to the media.

Woman witness

So far one woman has come out to identify two of the suspects whose sketches have been released by the police. The woman told a television channel that she recognised Sayyad Zabiuddin and Zulfeqar Fayyaz from the sketches put out by police. According to her they were part of a group of four men who were near one of the bogies in which the bomb had gone off.

The witness said she felt suspicious about the manner in which the two men got on board the train with a briefcase. She also told the television channel that the police did not take down her testimony.

Burqa-clad man held

Meanwhile, according to a UNI report the city police arrested a man on grounds of suspicion when he tried to enter the Sahar International Airport here wearing a ‘burqa’ last night.

The man, identified as Mohammed Illiyas (35), has been booked under Section 122 of the Bombay Police Act.