Militant Group Claims Responsibility For India Bombing

Jaipur, India (AHN) - A previously-unknown Islamic militant group claimed responsibility Thursday for bombings in the country's pink city and warned of more attacks on tourist sites.

Police were investigating the claim made in a video clip e-mailed to different media offices, Gulab Chand Kataria, home minister of the northern state of Rajasthan told Agence France Press.

The e-mail also came with an attached Microsoft Word document purportedly written by a Guru al-Hindi, who claims to be from a group calling itself the Indian Mujahideen.

The "Indian Mujahideen is waging an open war against the country for supporting the United States and the United Kingdom on international issues," the agency reported, quoting the email.

Kataria said that the clip also showed a few seconds of a bicycle purportedly packed with explosives, which was later set off at one of the eight blast locations in Jaipur.

The e-mail was sent from an Internet cafe in Sahibabad town, close to the capital New Delhi, police said, adding that the account was created on Wednesday, using the Yahoo! domain.

Sahibabad detectives detained the owner of the cafe for questioning on Thursday.

Eight separate blasts that killed 63 people were recorded over a 12-minute period in the early evening Tuesday, with many occurring close to some of Jaipur's most famous or historic monuments.

Known as the "pink city" because of the color of the walls, forts, palaces and other buildings that dominate the old city, Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan state and a popular tourist destination.