INDIAN police have arrested two suspected Kashmiri rebels for a bomb blast which killed seven people in the Indian capital on Wednesday, the Press Trust of India said yesterday.
The pair told investigators they belonged to the Jam mu and Kashmir Islamic Front, a little known group which said it carried out the attack. Dozens of separatist groups are engaged in a six year revolt in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir in which over 20,000 are reported dead.
Minister Syed Sibte Razi told reporters that 35 others had been detained for questioning in connection with the blast in Delhi's busy Sadar Bazar area.
A seventh person died yesterday of injuries from the bomb blast in a teeming market street, the third in a recent string of attacks in the heart of the city.
Police say the explosion injured 35 people, blew apart vehicles and sparked a fire that destroyed a row of shops.
Late on Wednesday a man identifying himself as a spokesman for the Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front called newspaper offices in Srinagar.
He said the blast was a protest against "atrocities" by Indian security forces in Jam mu and Kashmir.