Militants claim responsibility for bomb attacks

Indian police probed yesterday whether Indian Islamist groups or Bangladeshi infiltrators were behind bombings in a popular Indian tourist city that killed 61 people this week, but made no major arrests.

Eight bombs, many strapped to bicycles, ripped through a crowded shopping area in the western city of Jaipur on Tuesday evening and injured another 216 people.

Police said the attack bore some hallmarks of the Bangladeshi militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami (HuJI), and released a sketch of a man in his mid-20s seen near the scene of one bombing speaking Bengali, the main language of Bangladesh.