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NEW DELHI : Police in India and Bangladesh on Wednesday arrested four suspected Islamic militants including one blamed for serial blasts in India's software capital Bangalore last year, officials said.
Top security officials from the two South Asian countries meeting in New Delhi said the suspects belonged to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group which India also blames for last year's attacks in Mumbai that left 166 people dead.
Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said two of the suspects were caught along the India-Bangladesh border early on Wednesday.
He identified one of them as T. Nazir, saying he was the alleged mastermind of a string of nine blasts which left two people dead and six injured in Bangalore in July 2008.
Pillai's Bangladeshi counterpart Abdus Sobhan Sikder said police in his country had also arrested two other alleged LeT guerrillas.
"One of them is a Bangladeshi and the nationality of the other is yet to be ascertained," Sikder told reporters in New Delhi. He did not elaborate.
Sikder is in New Delhi to finalise a scheduled three-day visit to India by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina beginning December 18. - AFP/ms
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