NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Twin bomb blasts have killed dozens of people in India's financial capital, Mumbai.
The Indian government said Monday's attacks appeared similar to ones planned or carried out by two terrorist groups -- one of them allegedly connected to al Qaeda.
Police put the death toll at 44, but hospital officials said 46 had died. At least 115 people were wounded.
Hours later, nine mine detonators were found on a railway track on a major line 85 kilometers (about 50 miles) north of Mumbai at Kafara, said Chhagan Bhujbal, provincial home minister.
The detonators were planted on a line to the city of Nashik, where a major Hindu festival is under way through Wednesday.
Provincial officials said they had no suspects and there was no claim of responsibility for planting the detonators.
In Mumbai, both bombs were inside the trunks of taxi cabs, police said.
Both bombs were inside the trunks of taxi cabs, police said. One of the bombs blew up near the colonial-era Gateway to India monument. The second bomb went off close to the Hindu Temple of Mumbadevi.
No-one has claimed responsibility for the explosions.
Police said they had received several leads from the driver of one of the taxis who, they said, was apparently working in league with his passenger, who was carrying a bomb.
Indian Internal Security Minister L.K. Advani said that while it is too early to say for certain who is behind the attacks, the blasts had the hallmarks of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and the Kashmiri separatist group Lashkar-e-Toiba.
India shut down the SIMI on September 28, 2001, just shortly after the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, accusing it of being linked to the al Qaeda terrorist network.
The offices of the group were padlocked and its leaders were taken into custody by Indian authorities.
Lashkar-e-Toiba, or the Army of the Pure, has been accused by India of carrying out terror attacks in Indian-controlled Kashmir. India has accused Pakistan of backing the group, a charge Pakistan denies.
In Islamabad, Pakistan, a Pakistani government spokesman condemned the bombings.
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The Indian government said Monday's attacks appeared similar to ones planned or carried out by two terrorist groups -- one of them allegedly connected to al Qaeda.
Police put the death toll at 44, but hospital officials said 46 had died. At least 115 people were wounded.
Hours later, nine mine detonators were found on a railway track on a major line 85 kilometers (about 50 miles) north of Mumbai at Kafara, said Chhagan Bhujbal, provincial home minister.
The detonators were planted on a line to the city of Nashik, where a major Hindu festival is under way through Wednesday.
Provincial officials said they had no suspects and there was no claim of responsibility for planting the detonators.
In Mumbai, both bombs were inside the trunks of taxi cabs, police said.
Both bombs were inside the trunks of taxi cabs, police said. One of the bombs blew up near the colonial-era Gateway to India monument. The second bomb went off close to the Hindu Temple of Mumbadevi.
No-one has claimed responsibility for the explosions.
Police said they had received several leads from the driver of one of the taxis who, they said, was apparently working in league with his passenger, who was carrying a bomb.
Indian Internal Security Minister L.K. Advani said that while it is too early to say for certain who is behind the attacks, the blasts had the hallmarks of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and the Kashmiri separatist group Lashkar-e-Toiba.
India shut down the SIMI on September 28, 2001, just shortly after the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, accusing it of being linked to the al Qaeda terrorist network.
The offices of the group were padlocked and its leaders were taken into custody by Indian authorities.
Lashkar-e-Toiba, or the Army of the Pure, has been accused by India of carrying out terror attacks in Indian-controlled Kashmir. India has accused Pakistan of backing the group, a charge Pakistan denies.
In Islamabad, Pakistan, a Pakistani government spokesman condemned the bombings.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/08/25/mumbai.blasts/index.html