India

Bombing suspects sought

Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani suggested Tuesday that neighboring Pakistan was involved in bombings that ripped through Bombay this week, as police searched for teams of terrorists that included several women who rented taxis used in the attacks that killed at least 50 people.

Authorities were hunting for a man, woman and child who hired one of the cabs for two days of sightseeing and then slipped away from the historic Gateway of India monument minutes before the vehicle exploded. Police also were tracking two women and a male companion who reportedly hired a taxi that exploded 15 minutes earlier at the city’s busy jewelry hub.

The blasts at the Gateway landmark and the Zaveri Bazaar injured more than 150 others.

Though local officials had been quick to suggest on Monday that Pakistan was involved in the attack, national leaders had initially been cautious about blaming their neighbor.

Miami

Ex-Colombian kingpin sentenced on drug charges

Fabio Ochoa, once a feared leader of Colombia’s deadly Medellin drug cartel, was sentenced Tuesday to more than 30 years in prison for returning to the drug trade after winning amnesty at home.

Ochoa, who helped transform cocaine smuggling into a tightly run, billion-dollar business in the 1980s, was sent to prison for joining a network capable of moving 30 tons a month from 1997 to 1999.

The charges had carried a possible life sentence.

Ochoa, 46, was convicted in May of joining a smuggling network run by one of his former cartel underlings after serving a five-year Colombian prison sentence and getting amnesty for his cartel days.

Mexico

Former Hurricane Ignacio downgraded to depression

Former Hurricane Ignacio hit land at barely tropical storm force, cutting off the state capital of Baja California, La Paz, and the tourist resort of Los Cabos with mudslides and washed-out roads. Hundreds of tourists were stranded.

Ignacio’s winds, once more than 90 mph, declined to about 35 mph Tuesday and the storm was weakening as it moved inland.

Forecasters downgraded Ignacio to a tropical storm and later to a tropical depression, saying the system would continue to weaken and could dissipate before the weekend.