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Two arrested over Mumbai attacks

Mumbai attacks - Two men arrested
Mumbai attacks - Two men arrested

Indian police have arrested two men for allegedly supplying mobile phone cards to militants who staged the deadly Mumbai attacks.

The men were arrested yesterday in the eastern city of Kolkata ‘for allegedly providing SIM cards to the terrorists in the Mumbai attacks’.

The arrests are believed to be the first in connection with the attacks late last month, other than the capture of one of the militants during the 60-hour siege of India's financial hub.

Earlier, the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, said he was still waiting for what he called ‘concrete proof’ that a group based in his country carried out the attacks.

The attack by 10 gunmen against multiple targets in Mumbai, including the landmark Taj Mahal hotel, killed 163 people including 26 foreigners. Nine militants were killed.