India offers reward in blast probe

India yesterday offered a 120,000-dollar reward for help in arresting those responsible for a string of blasts in a western city that left 49 dead and more than 160 injured.
An Islamist group calling itself the "Indian Mujahedeen" has claimed responsibility for Saturday's blasts in Ahmedabad, the scene of deadly Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002, and warned of more attacks.
In the diamond-processing city of Surat, 200 kilometres south of Ahmedabad, 18 bombs were defused on Tuesday, and another one was disabled yesterday, police said. Two cars packed with explosives were found on Sunday.
"Enemies of this country are bent upon destroying it," said Narendra Modi, the firebrand Hindu nationalist chief minister of Gujarat state, where the two cities are located.
Modi, who announced the reward for information about the case, appealed to citizens to be "fully alert" about the possibility of more attacks.