Two men were arrested in India on Wednesday on suspicion of links to last month's bombing of an India-Pakistan train which killed 68 people, a senior police official told AFP.
"The two men were picked up from (the central Indian city of) Indore," said R C Mishra, deputy inspector general of police in the northern state of Haryana, where the attack took place. "They were linked to the purchase of the suitcases in which the bombs were packed," the police official and top investigator told AFP.
Mishra did not identify the two, but the Press Trust of India news agency said they were bag shop managers who had supplied the covers for the suitcases in which the bombs were concealed. They were named as Huzaifa, a Muslim, and Poonam Singh Thakur, a Hindu.
The pair were being questioned in Indore and would be taken to Haryana later in the day, it said. It was not clear if they were suspected of being directly involved in the plot. Indian police teams have released sketches of two suspects who were believed to have planted the bombs, and briefly detained seven people from three northern states for questioning last month.
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