India: Bombers from Pakistan, Bangladesh

NEW DELHI, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- India accused a Pakistan- and Bangladesh-based militant group of being behind Saturday's twin bomb blasts in Hyderabad that killed 40 people.

"There were Bangladeshi and Pakistani connections to the twin bomb explosions that rocked Hyderabad on Saturday leaving 40 people dead and 54 injured. The Karachi-based terror outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami, which originates from Bangladesh, is the mastermind of the blast," said Y.S. Rajshekher Reddy, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh state, where the bombing occurred.

The Interior Department said it had obtained clues, which it was coordinating with the Intelligence Bureau and the Central Bureau of Investigation to gather further leads on those who carried out the blasts. Interior Secretary Madhukar Gupta assigned special secretary M.L. Kumawat to assist the state police in the investigation.

The Interior Department constituted seven teams to conduct the investigation. The team consists of senior officials from the state and federal interior departments and security agencies, an Interior Ministry official said. A red alert was sounded all over Andhra Pradesh.

Reddy said that after analyzing the contents of an unexploded bomb at Dilsukhnagar it was found that the charge in the bomb was Neo Gel-90, the ammonium nitrate emulsifier-based explosive. He said the packing indicated it was made by Amin Explosives in the western city of Nagpur.