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Police release sketch of suspect

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RDX used in high intensity blasts, police obtain slender leads: Vasundhara Raje

— Photo: Gopal Sunger

THE DAY AFTER: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje comforts bomb blast victims at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital on Wednesday.

JAIPUR: A day after the Pink City was shaken by the serial bomb blasts, the families of most of the victims cremated or buried their dead. At least 14 bodies were awaiting identification. The death toll has risen to 63, including three policemen.

Meanwhile, the Rajasthan police released the sketch of a suspected terrorist on the basis of details provided by a shopkeeper at Kishenpole Bazaar who sold him a cycle, which was used in planting a bomb in the crowded area of the Walled City. Inspector-General Pankaj Kumar Singh told The Hindu on Wednesday that the shopkeeper remembered this person as he behaved suspiciously and seemed to be in undue hurry to buy the cycle.

Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who met journalists here, said the bombs used in the high intensity blasts contained RDX and ammonium nitrate. “The bombs had ball-bearings which worked like small missiles.” Pointing to the sophisticated nature of the timer devices used to trigger the explosions, she said an international terrorist group could be behind the operation. She, however, did not name any group.

Ms. Raje said the police and Central authorities, who are helping the local administration with the probe, had obtained “slender leads.” She refuted the charge of intelligence failure.

There were 118 patients still in various hospitals with the premier Sawai Man Singh Hospital accounting for as many as 91, she said.

While the Chief Minister put the death toll at 63, a statement from BJP leader L.K.Advani, released after his interaction with the media in the Chief Minister’s Office, carried a reference to “over 70 innocent people” getting killed in the “latest instance in terrorism’s war on India.”

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