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Multiple blasts rock India trains, killing 137
Prime minister calls Cabinet meeting, says attacks the work of terrorists
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MUMBAI, India - Seven bomb explosions rocked rail stations and trains in India's financial hub Tuesday, killing 137 people and injuring 300, officials said. India's major cities were put on high alert after the blasts.
"We are busy in the rescue operation. Our first priority is to rescue the injured people," he said on Indian television. However, heavy monsoon downpours were hampering the effort.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called an emergency Cabinet meeting, and said that "terrorists" were behind the attacks. Home Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters that authorities had "some" information an attack was coming, "but place and time was not known."
Kashmir group major suspect
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but the blasts came in quick succession — a common tactic employed by Kashmiri separatists who have repeatedly targeted India's cities.
A senior U.S. counterterrorism official told NBC News that the Mumbai attacks are "more likely than not" the work of Lashkar e Taiba, the Kashmir separatist group, based on early analysis of the attacks. Laskhar translates to The Army of the Pure.
"They have targeted trains before and are the leading suspect," said the official. "They have gone after trains and train platforms in 2002 and 2003. It is more likely than not the work of Lashkar. In fact you can say it is very likely their work."
The official confirmed that Dawood Ibrahim, the Indian Muslim radical, has indeed financed Lashkar operations in the past.
