Indian police release new sketches

Published February 26, 2007

WAGAH, Feb 25: More Pakistanis came to India on Sunday to look for missing relatives aboard a trans-national train that was firebombed last week, officials said.

Four Pakistani men crossed over to India through the land opening at the Wagah border in northern Punjab state to search for family members who were returning to Pakistan last Sunday when the train was attacked.

Meanwhile, police in northern Haryana state, where the blasts took place, released new modified sketches of two suspects.

“The earlier sketch was made with the help of one witness. We now have more than one eyewitness and hence have developed this improved version with their accounts,” railway police official Bharti Arora was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.

The two men boarded the train from New Delhi to Lahore and got off about 15 minutes before the two explosions, when the train slowed down, police said.

TIMER: A Haryana police team is in Rajkot town to investigate about a specific timer-device made by a prominent Indian clock company that was used to trigger the blasts.

The team was rushed to Gujarat after it was discovered that the timer-device clocks used in the explosions was made by the company, Zee News reported.—AFP\APP

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