Authorities imposed a dawn-to-dusk curfew in parts of Jaipur today, a day after eight bombs ripped through bustling streets, killing 63 people and injuring 216.
Today, hundreds of policemen looked for unclaimed objects in the rubble, while many people in Jaipur preferred to stay indoors.
"It was very scary and most of us just ran as there was smoke and cries for help in every direction," said Anil Saxena, a businessman at a popular jewellery market.
Authorities cleaned a blood-splattered street in front of Hawa Mahal, a five-storied sandstone building built in 1799 AD.
The bustling walled city's main square was mostly deserted with a few people coming back to take personal belongings out of damaged cars and motorbikes left behind after the blasts.
Officials said they still did not know which group was responsible for the bombings. "We have detained two or three persons for questioning," said Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. "We have got slender leads, but not a definite lead in the case."
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Her state parliamentary affairs minister RS Rathore said 63 people were now confirmed dead.
A National Security Guards (NSG) team has been sent to Jaipur to analyse the explosives used in the blasts. Primarily, the home ministry maintains that the incident has links with recent blasts in Hyderabad, Ajmer Sharif, Varanasi and Faizabad.
High-explosive RDX was used, a senior police official said in Jaipur, as tell-tale signs pointed to the involvement of Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HUJI).
The explosives were fitted with timers and planted on cycles, just like in last year's blasts in court premises in Uttar Pradesh in which HUJI was involved, police said.
Eight people, including a man injured in the blasts and a rickshaw-puller, were being questioned, they said. Seven teams of Rajasthan police and intelligence branch are probing the blasts.
"It was cent per cent a terrorist attack on the pattern of blasts in the court premises in UP in November last year. RDX was used in containers tagged to cycles along with timer devices," said Additional Director General of Police (Crime) AK Jain.
Four companies of the Rapid Action Force have been deployed in Jaipur.
Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal was quoted by local media as saying there "might be involvement of some foreign hand in the blasts."
Authorities said they did not have information about any foreigners injured in the blast. It is low season in the tourist state of Rajasthan.
Hundreds of volunteers queued up in hospitals to donate blood for survivors.
Inside Jaipur's main hospital, women and children writhed in pain as doctors bandaged their heads or badly injured arms.
Others thronged the mortuary at the back of the hospital to try to get bodies of their relatives out as quickly as possible.
"This is an endless wait. I don't know when I can get my brother's body out of here," Rakesh Sharma, a businessman, said.
In the past few years, bomb blasts in Indian cities have killed hundreds of people. The deadliest was in July 2006, when seven bombs exploded on Mumbai's railway system, killing more than 180 people.
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi is likely to visit Jaipur on Thursday.