A group fighting Indian rule in the occupied Kashmir region denied on Monday it was involved in a series of weekend bomb attacks in New Delhi that killed at least 59 people. Analysts and Indian police say the group that claimed responsibility for Saturday's bombings is linked to Lashkar-i-Taiba.

But a spokesman for Lashkar leader Maulana Abdul Wahid said the group was not involved in the attacks and had no links to Islami Inqilabi Mahaz (Islamic Revolutionary Front), which said on Sunday it was responsible for the blasts.

"We are fighting Indian occupation forces in the occupied Kashmir but we are not involved in attacking civilians in any part of India," the spokesman, who did not want to be named, told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

"We have nothing to do with this group'

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