LeQ claims responsibility for Mumbai blasts

All 16 people involved in Mumbai blasts 'are safe', an e-mail tells a TV channel.

A terrorist outfit Lashker-e-Qahar on Saturday sent an e-mail to a TV channel claiming responsibility for Tuesday's serial blasts in Mumbai in which nearly 200 people were killed.

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According to the TV channel, the e-mail message was received at 1725 hrs on Saturday claiming that the outfit was associated with the Lasker-e-Taiba.

The Lashker-e-Qahar said 16 people were involved in the terrorist operation in which they triggered seven blasts in local trains.

The organisation said it was making their involvement public since all the 16 people involved in the operation were now safe in their places.

The message, sent from the e-mail address jack_smith55@yahoo.com, said explosions were carried out in retaliation for the incidents in Jammu and Kashmir and Gujarat.