Vital clues in serial blasts, Varanasi tense but normal

Varanasi/Lucknow, Mar 8: Uttar Pradesh police today (Mar 8, 2006) claimed to have achieved vital clues in connection with the twin blasts in Varanasi yesterday, following the killing of a Lashker-e-Toiba ultra in an encounter this morning.

Meanwhile, the situation in the holy city, where at least 17 people were killed and over 90 injured in the explosions, is tense but returning to normal.

''No terrorist organisation has owned responsibility for the blasts so far but we have some vital clues with us as a pointer towards some definite breakthrough in the ghastly incident,'' Acharya Palanivel, Additional Director General of Police (ADG), Law and Order, told sources here this morning.

UNI