Bomber's deadly work on show beside Indian rail track

By Y.P. Rajesh

DEEWANA, India (Reuters) - By the side of a railway track just outside the Indian capital, a gray suitcase lies split open, revealing a bomber's deadly work.

More than a dozen plastic bottles are packed inside, carrying a highly inflammable cocktail of fuel oils and chemicals, mixed with pieces of cloth to prolong the fire.

Covering them, a foam pad embedded with a small electronic circuit board in a transparent plastic box. Coloured wires, now snipped, connect to a metal timer the size of a pencil and a thin, black torch-like detonator.

Alongside, a plastic bag with a yellowish powder -- thought to be sulphur -- is packed in cotton wool.

Two bombs like this detonated around midnight on Sunday on a train bound from India to Pakistan, sparking fires that killed at least 66 people, most of them Pakistanis.

This was one of two bombs that was found later on other carriages and defused.

Who planted the deadly bombs, no one yet knows. But they clearly knew what they were doing.

"These were made by experts," a police officer told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media.