07-21-2006, 04:19 AM
<b>Kenyan Police claim arrest of Mumbai blast suspect</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Kenyan Police claim to have arrested one of India's most-wanted terror suspects, supposedly belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba group.
The group is suspected to have been involved in the Mumbai train blasts.
Anti-terrorism police in the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa said that they had detained <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Abdul Karim Tunda</span> and would be turning him over to prosecutors for possible extradition to India.
"We arrested him today in Mombasa," a senior police official said on condition of anonymity.
<b>"He is wanted for Mumbai blasts. He will be handed over because he is on the wanted list."</b>
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According to reports, Tunda has allegedly masterminded 33 Lashkar-e-Taiba bomb blasts in New Delhi and adjoining areas between December 1996 and January 1998 in which 21 people were killed and 400 injured.
His faction of the group is believed to have bases in Bangladesh and Pakistan, according to those reports.
It was not immediately clear why Tunda may have been in Kenya, although the east African nation has<b> a substantial south Asian minority population</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
WHy they don't write Muslim population in place of minority?
The group is suspected to have been involved in the Mumbai train blasts.
Anti-terrorism police in the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa said that they had detained <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Abdul Karim Tunda</span> and would be turning him over to prosecutors for possible extradition to India.
"We arrested him today in Mombasa," a senior police official said on condition of anonymity.
<b>"He is wanted for Mumbai blasts. He will be handed over because he is on the wanted list."</b>
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According to reports, Tunda has allegedly masterminded 33 Lashkar-e-Taiba bomb blasts in New Delhi and adjoining areas between December 1996 and January 1998 in which 21 people were killed and 400 injured.
His faction of the group is believed to have bases in Bangladesh and Pakistan, according to those reports.
It was not immediately clear why Tunda may have been in Kenya, although the east African nation has<b> a substantial south Asian minority population</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
WHy they don't write Muslim population in place of minority?