Indian police release more sketches of blast suspects

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NEW DELHI (AFP) — Indian police on Friday distributed sketches of three more men suspected of involvement in serial blasts that ripped through the pink walled city of Jaipur earlier this week killing 63 people.

The latest sketches were of men in their late teens to mid-20s believed to have bought bicycles used in the string of explosions that took place along a busy shopping street in the capital of India's desert state of Rajasthan.

The sketches were based on descriptions "from the people who sold them the cycles," the state's top police official Amarjot Singh Gill told AFP.

Police had issued one sketch a day after the blasts, which injured over 200 in Jaipur, one of the country's top tourist magnets popularly known as the Pink City because of the colour of...