Warrants issued for New Delhi blast suspects

A court in India has issued arrest warrants for three Iranians over last month's bomb targeting an Israeli diplomat's wife in the capital, New Delhi, the Times of India reported on Thursday citing police. The men, identified as Housan Afshar, Syed Ali Mehdi Sadr and Mohammed Reza Abolghasemi, are believed to have left the country immediately after the attack on February 13. The Indian government will ask the international police agency Interpol to help locate the suspects, an unnamed police official told the paper. Israel has blamed Iran for the New Delhi attack which seriously wounded the wife of an Israeli defense ministry official, but Tehran has denied the accusations. A magnet bomb was fixed to the diplomat's car by a motorcyclist. Three other people were injured in the blast. Last week, police in New Delhi detained a freelance Indian journalist reportedly working for an Iranian publication over possible links to the attack.