MUMBAI - Indian police were on Wednesday investigating if the sole unclaimed body from the Mumbai train attacks was a bomber after a little-known group said a member of a 16-strong extremist group was killed in the operation. Police have cast doubt on a claim of responsibility by Lashkar-e-Qahhar for the well-planned attacks on July 11 that killed 182 and wounded more than 800. The group said it would provide video evidence to back up its claims. “One body is unidentified lying in the morgue. We don’t know if he is one of the terrorists, so we’re investigating,” additional commissioner of police Jayjit Singh told AFP.The group warned of further attacks on historic and government sites in India in an email sent to the private Aaj Tak television network late on Monday. “We are Muslims. We never tell lie,” said the email in badly-written English and signed by Abu Mahaz, who claimed to be a spokesman for the group.
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It accused the government of “exploiting” Muslims but did not go into detail. Experts have cast doubt on the email because it was sent under the name of “John Smith” -- a name unlikely to be used by Islamic militants. Police have traced the email to the city of Indore in central Madhya Pradesh province, according to the Press Trust of India, quoting an unnamed senior police official. “It is most likely to be an Internet cafe and we will have to find out if the sender could be identified,” the official said but did not rule out that it was a hoax.