Indian town seething with anger

The BBC's Zubair Ahmed visits the city of Malegaon in India a day after it was hit by bomb attacks to find residents seething with anger.

"What goes around comes around," said a local police officer.

The tongue-in-cheek remark was meant to be an off-the-record comment.

But that just summed up the reputation of Malegaon, a dusty town of 700,000 people, two-thirds of them Muslims, in the eyes of officials, who often brand it as a hotbed of support for home-grown as well international Islamic militant organisations.

Indeed its reputation was not helped when a large cache of arms and ammunition was seized from men who were born and raised here a few weeks before the Mumbai bomb blasts two months ago.

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Manzoor Ilahi was fuming. "Malegaon has always been accused of harbouring Islamic terrorists. Now tell me, why would we be attacked on a day which is so pious in Islam?"


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