Police say claim of credit for Bombay train bombings is a hoax

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BOMBAY, India - Two e-mails purportedly from a little-known Islamic militant group that took credit for last week’s deadly Bombay train bombings were a hoax sent by a teenage boy in southern India seeking “publicity,” a top investigator said Wednesday.

With no arrests or breakthroughs in the search for those behind the July 11 blasts, which killed 207 people and wounded more than 800, suspicion has centered on Islamic militants fighting Indian rule in the disputed territory of Kashmir.

The e-mails played to those fears, and authorities at first said they suspected the purported militant group named in them - Lashkar-e-Qahhar, or the Army of Terror - was a front for a well-established militant group based in Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.


But on Wednesday, police investigator K.P. Raghuvanshi, told reporters that the e-mails had been sent by a teenage boy in the southern city of Bhopal.