Confusion prevails over reported arrest of Tunda

In a dramatic twist the Kenyan police say that the arrested man is a West African national and not Tunda.

In a dramatic twist to the reports that one of India's most wanted men, Syed Abdul Karim alias Tunda, had been nabbed in Mombasa, the Kenyan police said on Saturday night that the arrested man was a West African national amid media reports that he had been handed over to the FBI.

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Tunda, founder of the Laskher-e-Taiba in India and wanted for several blasts in Mumbai, Delhi and other places in the country during 1993-98, was said to have been arrested in Mombasa on Thursday night - news that had been received with great satisfaction by security agencies in Kenya.

However, Kenyan police spokesman M Kibunja said that the arrested person was not an Indian but a West African national. "He has nothing to do with the Mumbai blasts," Kibunja said.