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Train blasts: role of Pakistani being probed

Staff Reporter

Sketch of the unidentified body released

MUMBAI: In the Mumbai train blasts investigation, the Anti-Terrorist Squad on Thursdaysaid that they are investigating role of the Pakistani national who was killed on August 22.

ATS chief K.P. Raghuvanshi said that they recovered a map from Abu Osama, who died in the encounter, which had five places marked in the city. He said they were investigating into possible intentions.

He said they received this information during the interrogation of Riaz Nawabuddin, the other person who was arrested on August 22. About Nawabuddin, he said that he could have links with Jaish E Mohammad and that he had travelled to Kashmir and Delhi before coming to Mumbai. He said Nawabuddin claimed that he did not know Abu Osama and that he had met him few days before the encounter. Mr.Raghuvanshi said that Nawabuddin worked as a fitter under a different name in a company in Himachal Pradesh. A team has gone to the location to investigate.

Regarding the map, he said, the five places that were marked on the map were the Western railway line, Byculla station, BARC, Bandra, and `SW' suspected to be the Siddhivinayak temple.

In another development, the ATS released the sketch of the only unidentified body. Mr.Raghuvanshi clarified that the ATS did not assume that the body was of a suspected terrorist. He said, "It has been many days and body has been lying unclaimed. The sketch has been released so that his relatives can identify and claim the body. We have not said the body is of any terrorist."

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