Was the Ajmer blast a suicide attack?

'Suspicious material' found in one of the dead man's pockets

MUMBAI: Home Minister Shivraj Patil said on Saturday that the bomb blast at Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti's shrine in Ajmer that killed two people appeared to have 'links across the border'.

Rajasthan Police sources told DNA that said six people, including two Bangladeshis, had been detained for questioning. A mobile telephone with a SIM card was used as a trigger. 

A police team arrived in Hyderabad to probe whether Syed Salim, one of the two men killed in the blast at Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti's shrine in Ajmer, was behind the attack.

The body of 42-year-old Salim, a resident of Hyderabad, was brought to the city in the early hours of Saturday. Salim had made Ajmer his home nine years ago.

He used to run a cosmetics shop near the shrine. While Salim's family has refused to talk, his neighbours and friends in Janki Nagar in Hyderabad's Toli Chowki neighbourhood said Salim, the eldest of seven brothers, had been living in a rented house in Ajmer.

He used to visit Hyderabad once a year to meet his wife and two children.

Some friends claimed he wasn't mentally sound and decided to settle down in Ajmer out of his reverence for the saint.

Similarities between the Ajmer blast and the Mecca Masjid blast have further raised
suspicions about his involvement.