4 suspected LeT ultras shot dead in encounter

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.

"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.

According to police sources, the terrorists belonged to the banned LeT's suicide squad and two of them hailed from Pakistan.

One of the killed terrorists has been identified as Javed who hails from Pune, while the women is yet to be identified, police said.

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.