Indian police defuse 18 more bombs

POLICE defused 18 bombs found near the main diamond markets in the city of Surat yesterday and issued a sketch of a young man believed to be linked to one of two explosives-filled cars discovered there.

The announcement came as authorities in a Mumbai suburb probed ties to a series of blasts over the weekend that killed 42 people and wounded 183 in Ahmadabad, about 281km north of Surat.

An obscure Islamic militant group claimed responsibility.