Police claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate chief minister Narendra Modi and other prominent political leaders, by killing four persons, including a woman, whom the police said were terrorists owing allegiance to the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). | |
| The suspected terrorists were killed in an encounter with police in Ahmedabad early on Tuesday, police said. |
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| "We had received intelligence reports that the terrorists have arrived in the city to assassinate chief minister Modi. Acting on the reports, a team of crime branch detectives intercepted a blue Indica car at Kotarpur near the Ahmedabad airport. The team spotted the terrorists there and in the ensuing encounter, the militants were killed," P P Pandey, joint commissioner of police, said. |
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| According to police sources, the terrorists belonged to the banned LeT's suicide squad and two of them hailed from Pakistan. |
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| One of the killed terrorists has been identified as Javed who hails from Pune, while the women is yet to be identified, police said. |
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| The bodies of all the four suspected terrorists have been send for post-mortem. Police fired 70 rounds in retaliation to the 35 rounds fired by the terrorists. |
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