New Dehli, India ? Police arrested three men in the July 11 train bombings in Bombay, the first formal arrests in the attacks that killed 207, Indian television reported today.

The mainstream news channel NDTV cited police sources as saying two men were arrested late Thursday in the northern state of Bihar and a third was arrested early today in Bombay.

Police and officials repeatedly have blamed the blasts on Islamic militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, namely the Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.