Car blast: Indian security agencies get info from Thailand, Georgia

New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI) Indian security agencies, probing Monday's attack on an Israeli diplomat here, have received information on similar strikes in Thailand and Georgia in the past few days. "Government agencies got information from Georgia and Thailand regarding organisations and persons. The forensic experts are working on these leads. Analysis is also on to match things used in the Tbilisi and Bangkok strikes with those found in the Delhi incident," an official source said. According to officials monitoring the case, forensic experts are trying to ascertain whether there are any similarities in the explosion here with the two blasts. Police in Georgian capital Tbilisi had thwarted an attack on Monday when they disabled an explosive device found in the car of an Israeli embassy employee. Three Iranian youths were arrested in Thailand and Malaysia in the past two days after the explosive device went off accidentally in Bangkok. According to Bangkok police, the three were planning to attack Israeli diplomats. Also, the two homemade "sticky" bombs found at the blast site on February 14 matched the devices planted on Israeli diplomatic cars in India and Georgia. Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua Koren, who is the wife of that country's Defence Attache, was seriously injured when terrorists triggered an explosive device on the vehicle carrying her on Monday. Meanwhile, the condition of 40-year-old Tal Yehoshua, who underwent a spine and liver surgery, is stable responding well to treatment, doctors attending on her said. "Her condition is improving. She is stable and conscious. We will monitor her for another day at the ICU and then we will shift her to the room, depending on her condition," Dr Arun Bhanot, chief of spine surgery, Primus Super Speciality Hospital, said. "Only one shrapnel was removed from her injured spine. Minute ones that are still lodged in her body need not be taken out as they are not going to affect her physical condition, he added. Meanwhile, the mother of Tal Yehoshua, Tzafira Koren, today arrived here from Israel to meet her injured daughter. PTI