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Thu Sep 21, 2006
NEW DELHI - Investigating agencies are close to identifying those responsible for the July 11 blasts in Mumbai that killed 186 people, officials said on Thursday.
"We are investigating in the right directions and soon we will be able to come out with the facts," K.P. Raghuvanshi, the city's anti-terrorism squad chief, told Reuters.
But Raghuvanshi declined to comment on a report on Indian television channel CNN-IBN that the attack had been planned and funded by al Qaeda.
The channel, quoting government sources, said at least 50 people were involved in the bombings and some of the main accused had trained in an al Qaeda camp with Mohammed Atta, leader of the hijacked plane attacks on New York's World Trade Centre in 2001.
P.S. Pasricha, police chief of Maharashtra, said the CNN-IBN report was "completely untrue". A home ministry official would say only that an announcement was likely in "three/four days".
About a dozen people have been arrested so far in the blast case, including an engineer, a journalist, a computer software professional and a doctor.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, security officials blamed local Muslims with links to Pakistan, and named Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba as a prime suspect.
The Pakistani government and Lashkar have denied any role in the attacks and Islamabad has offered to help India investigate the bombings.
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