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After recovery of 18 bombs and confiscated 2 explosives laden cars from Surat in the last two days, the scenario continued on the third day with discovery of 2 more bombs found in the Heera Bazaar and another on a treetop in the Kapodara area of Surat. Bombs were later defused successfully by the bomb disposal squad.

19th live bomb was found on the busy Varacha Road in the morning followed by next in the Prestige market shortly after Chief Minister Narendra Modi visited the diamond city.

After visiting the places from where live bombs were recovered, Modi said that terrorists were waging a proxy war against India and stressed on the need to unite as a country to fight the menace of terror.

Modi said,” the country needed to fight the “proxy war” being waged by terrorists.”

He announced a reward of Rs 51 lakh for information leading to the terrorists involved in the Ahmedabad serial blasts and the planting of bombs in Surat. He said with terrorists targeting cities like Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mumbai and Hyderabad, it seemed that their intention was to cripple financial activities in the country.

Modi also announced rewards of Rs 21,000 each for those who gave information about live bombs and cars laden with explosives found from Surat and Ahmedabad on Sunday. Police said it was similar to the 18 found yesterday from in and around Varacha, where several diamond processing units are located.

The bombs planted in Surat had integrated circuits (IC), Deputy Director of Forensic Science Laboratories (FSL), Surat, S M Darji said. It was the first time when ICs are used in bombs.

25 teams of ATS have started their investigations into the Ahmedabad blasts. The Mumbai crime branch has also assured its assistance to the ATS teams investigating the blasts case.

Meanwhile, Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami (HuJI) has also claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad blasts. Gujarati TV channel TV9 on Wednesday received a letter from HuJI in which they claimed responsibility for the blasts.

Earlier, it was reported that the Indian Mujahideen had also written e-mails to several media houses claiming responsibility of the blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad.

In the wake of rise in toll of recovery of bombs, strict security measures are being taken in the city.

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It seems Surat, the Diamond city came under terror radar. So far 18 bombs have been recovered from various areas in the Diamond city and all of them have been safely defused. Police said that bombs are recovered one after another in a short span of time from different parts of the Varaccha area housing most of Surat’s diamond processing units.

Most of the explosive devices were found from residential localities and the diamond workshop areas generating a wave of panic in the city. Police Commissioner R M S Brar on Tuesday urged the people not to visit the crowded places and to be more vigilant in the surrounding areas.

Three bombs were recovered in the morning followed by fifteen similar incidents in next a few hours. The first bomb was found near the Ladeshwar Police Chowky in the Varaccha area of the city. Another live bomb was recovered from a market in Santosh Nagar. The other explosives were reportedly recovered from the Mini Diamond market in Varaccha area of the city.

Three bombs were deactivated in the Mini Diamond Market area, three in Labeshwar, Santoshinagar and Matavadi localities and three under the Varacha-Kapodra flyover. A bomb was found handing from a tree in Matavadi while in Labeshwar it was left in an abandoned bag.

Gujarat police detained three men for questioning in connection with the serial blasts. Abdul Qadir, Hasil Mohammad and Hussain Ibrahim were detained near Limbi on Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway in Surendranagar district while they were leaving Ahmedabad soon after the Ahmedabad serial blasts that took 49 lives and left over 145 injured.

It was suspected that they are linked with outlawed SIMI and ‘Indian Mujahideen’. Interrogation is still going regarding this issue. Police said they were questioning SIMI activist Abdul Halim, who was arrested on Sunday but declined to give any details on what he has revealed so far.

Contents of the defused bombs have been sent to the forensic science laboratory for analysis and high alert had been sounded in Surat.

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Three more live bombs are detected in Surat on Tuesday morning from the busy Varachha Road and Santoshi Nagar area. The bomb disposal squad has successfully defused two bombs. Earlier, One bomb was diffused in the city yesterday and two explosives-laden cars were also recovered on Sunday to add the panic.

According to the recent information, a sketch was issued by police in connection with the blast. Police is trying hard to find the person. Till now, police is failed to get any major information.

On Tuesday morning, first bomb was found at Varachha Road, near the Ladeshwar police station while two others were recovered from a market in Santosh Nagar. Surat police officials rushed to the site soon after receiving the information. Reportedly a detonator was planted in the area, which could have gone off causing minor damage to the surroundings.

Two of the bombs were defused while attempts are underway to defuse the third recovered in Santoshi Nagar.

Meanwhile, the police have given a clean chit to the American national who was suspected to be involved in Ahmedabad blasts. He is living in a flat in Navi Mumbai with his family as a tenant. His e-mail id was used to send the threat mail to television news channels minutes before the Ahmedabad serial blasts on Saturday. The clean chit was given after the police verified the American’s claims that his e-mail id and IP address had been hacked to send the threat mail.

3 Kashmiris have been picked up by police from a guest house in Mumbai’s Bhindi Bazaar to interrogate regarding the blasts.

The police will also interrogate an RTO officer in connection with the detention of three persons yesterday, who were traveling from Surendranagar to Surat in a car. The police had recovered Rs 85,000 in cash and British currency worth Rs 2 lakhs hidden beneath the seat of their car.

Enquiry and interrogation is going in connection with the blasts happened in recent days. Ahmedabad serial blast killed 49 people and left many injured while Bangalore serial blast killed two. All the blasts are of low intensity. India is under stress because of these blasts.

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Diamond cutter’s protest across Gujarat for higher wages in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, lead to the death of a worker and at least two others injured when a private security guard fired on them.

During the agitation, the protesters were throwing stones demanding higher salaries from their employers after their counterparts in Surat were given a 20 per cent pay hike by the Surat Diamond Association. During the agitation a security guard of a diamond polishing unit to open fire on the workers before arrival of the police.

“We have detained the security guard who opened fire on the diamond workers,” Bhavnagar Superintendent of Police Anupam Singh Gehlot told PTI. Later police chased the agitators away. Gehlot said that the city is peaceful now.

Workers in Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Amreli and Bhavnagar started protests on Friday. Hundreds of diamond workers in Rajkot struck work on Friday to press for a 30 per cent hike in wages. Nearly 3,000 workers engaged joined the day-long strike. They tried to shut shops in Bapunagar locality of Ahmedabad.  Police arrested them and detained eight persons for disturbing peace.

Vithal Mendpara, president of the Bhavnagar Diamond Association, told PTI companies had agreed to hike wages but workers want salaries matching the number of hours they put in.

Diamond workers in Amreli took out a rally and gave a memorandum to the district collector.

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