Little-known outfit claims responsibility for Mumbai blasts

NEW DELHI: Little-known outfit Lashkar-e-Qahhar has purportedly claimed responsibility for Tuesday's serial blasts in Mumbai.

An e-mail, received by a news channel, said it was sent by Lashkar-e-Qahhar and the outfit was associated with al-Qaeda and Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba. According to the channel, the e-mail message was received at 1725 hrs.

The message, sent from the e-mail address jack_smith55@yahoo.com, said explosions were carried out in retaliation for the incidents in Jammu and Kashmir and Gujarat.

The e-mail said 16 Qahhar activists had carried out attacks in Mumbai and threatened to carry out more attacks if the Indian Government does not stop the "exploitation of Kashmiri people".

The organisation said it was making their involvement public since all the 16 people involved in the operation were now safe in their places.

The same outfit had claimed responsibility for the bomb blasts in Varanasi in March this year.