MUMBAI: Indian police investigators are heading to Thailand and Malaysia to look into what they say are “striking similarities” between the bombs used in Delhi and Bangkok against Israeli Embassy officials in both countries. The police team is to go to Southeast Asia later this month as part of their ongoing investigation, which has already seen suspects arrested in both Thailand and Malaysia. Police said the alleged operational head of the group, Sedaghatzadeh Masoud, an Iranian national who was arrested at the Kuala Lumpur airport, was handling the entire plot. “He was also in touch with Houshang Afshar Irani, the bomber who attached the explosives to the Israeli diplomat's car on February 13 in Delhi,” the Delhi police said in a statement. Police said they cracked the case with the help of “internal investigations”, after they found that Masoud had applied for an Indian visa. Masoud was arrested on February 15. He was allegedly part of the group that was trying to target Israeli nationals in Bangkok, when they accidentally blew up the house they were assembling a bomb in, a day after the Delhi attack. Another suspect was injured when the bomb he tried to throw bounced off a vehicle and hit him. Police said they arrested Urdu journalist Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi after they found he was in touch with Irani on phone. “We are still waiting for the forensic report of the magnetic bomb. We have been told that the two IEDs recovered from the house in Bangkok, where the alleged members of the module had checked in, are similar to the ones used here,” said a senior police officer. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/l7Hj1 Tags: Bomb, India, Israel, Malaysia, Police, Thailand Section: Latest News, Palestine, South Asia, Southeast Asia
