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Indian police say CCTV gives some clues on bombing


    MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian police were questioning several people Tuesday in connection with a bomb attack that killed 10 people in a western city after viewing closed-circuit television footage, officials said.

    The bomb exploded Saturday in a bakery in the city of Pune popular among Western and Indian tourists. It contained ammonium nitrate and RDX, a powerful explosive used by the military, Satyapal Singh, the Pune police chief, told reporters.

    "We have got some leads from CCTV footage and we are questioning many people," he said.

    The Pune bombing was the first major militant strike in the country after the Mumbai attacks in November 2008 that killed 166 people and which were blamed on the Pakistan-based separatist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

    Senior internal security sources have told Reuters the focus of the Pune attack investigations has been on the LeT, and the Indian Mujahideen, a local militant group.

    Police officers probing the bombing said they were interrogating several Indian Mujahideen (IM) members currently in jail and facing trial. Last February, Indian police charged 27 IM members for planning bomb attacks in the country.

    IM, a shadowy group which Indian officials and some experts say gets training and logistical support from LeT, is known to have operated a cell in Pune, an IT and educational hub about 160 km (100 miles) southeast of Mumbai.

    An unknown militant group called the Lashkar-e-Taiba Al Alami called the Islamabad office of India's The Hindu newspaper and claimed responsibility for the Pune attack, Indian television channels reported.

    Indian police said they had not heard about the group.

    India is seeking to interrogate David Headley, arrested in the United States last year and charged with scouting targets for the Mumbai attacks. India believes Headley, who also surveyed a religious retreat and a Jewish centre in Pune, has links to LeT.

    Monday, Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said authorities had no doubt that terror strikes in the country were largely masterminded from Pakistan, but with regard to the Pune blast, he would wait until the investigations were complete.

    (Reporting by Rina Chandran and Bappa Majumdar; Editing by Alistair Scrutton)