Tue, Jul 18, 2006 - Page 5 News List

No breakthroughs in Mumbai bombings

EXTRA HELP Police have brought some officers out of retirement in an effort to crack the puzzle of who was behind the train attacks that left 182 dead

AFP , MUMBAI

Mumbai has an ugly history of communal violence but police said there had been no backlash against the Muslim community since the blasts, with many helping take the wounded to hospital and giving blood to help them.

But tight security was expected for the visit to Mumbai yesterday of Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist chief minister of neighboring Gujarat, where many of the victims were from.

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