Sunday, February 10, 2008

Attack on BSE foiled

Six Lashkar-e-Toiba militants including two from Pakistan were arrested in Bareilly and Lucknow on Saturday night.According to the UP police, they were also planning to attack the Bombay stock exchange.The STF claims they found passports, maps of Mumbai and railway tickets to Mumbai on those six men. Two AK-47s, 5 grenades and a pistol were also recovered during the arrest.The militants were alleged to be behind the suicide attack on a CRPF camp in Rampur and the attack on IISC in Bangalore two year ago.Heavily armed militants in an attack on the CRPF camp in Rampur had killed eight persons, including seven security personnel. In Bangalore attack, one Delhi-IIT professor was killed by militants.Hand grenades and RDX were recovered from their possession, the ources said, adding the militants were planning to leave the town for Mumbai when they were nabbed.Three LeT militants - Suhail and Arshad Ali alias Baba, both residents of UP, and Fayheem, a Pakistani national - were arrested from a state roadways bus in Rampur when they were planning to go to Mumbai.

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