India arrests suspected accomplice in Delhi suicide bombing
Indian authorities have arrested a Kashmiri resident they said was implicated in a suicide bombing in New Delhi last week that killed 10 people and injured 32 others.
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) said in a news release on Sunday that Amir Rashid Ali conspired with the suicide bomber to plan the attack. Ali went to New Delhi to buy the car used as an improvised explosive device, according to the agency.
The suspect has not spoken publicly to local media and Indian authorities did not list a lawyer for him.
The NIA identified the suspected suicide bomber as Umar Un Nabi, a resident of Pulwama District and assistant professor of general medicine at Al Falah University in Faridabad.
The NIA said it’s still "pursuing multiple leads to unearth the larger conspiracy behind the bombing and identify others involved in the case.”
The involvement of homegrown attackers adds to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s challenge in responding to the attack.
Last week, an explosion in a police station in India’s Kashmir region killed nine and injured 32, when seized explosives detonated during an examination. Local police declined to provide details on the cause of the blast.
The government treats every suspected terrorist act as an act of war against India, a policy adopted after gunmen killed 26 people in the Indian-controlled section of the disputed region of Kashmir. New Delhi blamed that attack on Pakistan, leading to a four-day clash that brought the nuclear-armed nations close to war in May. Pakistan has denied involvement.
