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| Indian police release sketch of suspect of last weekend's blast |
| 2007-08-30 |
| (KUNA) - Police in the Southern Indian city of Hyderabad Wednesday released the sketch of a man who could have planted the bomb at Lumbini Park in the city last Saturday. Ponna Rao, Indian police Additional Commissioner for Crime in Hyderabad who is heading the investigations, told reporters in that city that the sketch was based on descriptions given by an injured eyewitness. The suspect is aged twenty-five years, about five feet 9 inches tall with a fair complexion and smooth hair. He was wearing glasses, Rao told reporters, the news agency Indo Asian News Service reported. The eyewitness told police that the suspect was sitting beside him at the laser show in the open-air auditorium at Lumbini Park. He was carrying a black bag, the eyewitness said. The eyewitness later changed his seat in the park, the news agency said. Based on the description the police made the photo sketch of the person. An expert from the Western Indian city of Mumbai was called to sketch the graphic description. When the sketch was completed, the police again cross checked it with the witness, who said it was more than 90 percent accurate, Rao said. He urged the people, who were present at Lumbini Park on that day, to approach the police if they had seen the suspect. Five hundred and ninty four persons watched the laser show in the park last Saturday. Ten people were killed in the explosion at the Park. Minutes later, 34 people were killed at the popular eatery Gokul Chat in the city. Rao said that substantial progress had been made in the investigations into the twin attacks. Police are probing the role of Shahid alias Bilal, a resident of Hyderabad and suspected Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami guerrilla, in the blasts. He is presently based in Bangladesh and had masterminded the blasts in Makkah Masjid also in Hyderabad last May. |
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