In a pre-dawn encounter on Sunday two terror suspects were gunned down by a joint team of the Noida police and the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) in Sector 97of Noida on the outskirts of the national capital while they were attempting to enter New Delhi, apparently, to spawn terror on Republic Day.
A report on the IBNLive website identified the two as Ali Ahmad resident of Rawalkot and Abu Ismail resident of Okara - both in Pakistan.
The incident comes some 24 hours before the nation celebrates the Republic Day.
Senior Superintendent of Police Navin Arora said the police action followed specific information of that said some men were on their way to Delhi from Ghaziabad in a Maruti carrying arms and ammunition.
The ATS, after receiving the inputs, chased the alleged terrorists who were travelling in a white Maruti from Ghaziabad. The terrorists fired at the ATS team which returned the fire.
The encounter took place at 0240 hrs IST. Two AK 47s and five hand grenades and some incriminating documents were recovered from the car, said the report on the IBNLive website.
A UP ATS constable was also injured in the encounter.
(Update)
"Two AK-47 rifles, four magazines, 120 live bullets, five hand grenades, detonators, nine RDX shells, a Maruti 800 car, Pakistani passports, some documents and Rs 18,000 were recovered from the terrorists," UP police ADG Brij Lall was quoted as saying.
The police later confirmed that the terrorists were Pakistani, after a Pakistani passport was found in the vehicle. The second man allegedly confirmed their identity after being captured just before dying.
"Both militants were injured and taken to hospital. One of the injured terrorists said he is Farooq from Akara in Pakistan, and he named the other terrorist as Abu Ismail of Rawalkote in Pakistan. Both of them died on way to hospital," informed the ADG.
(With Inputs from NDTTV and IBNLive)
A report on the IBNLive website identified the two as Ali Ahmad resident of Rawalkot and Abu Ismail resident of Okara - both in Pakistan.
The incident comes some 24 hours before the nation celebrates the Republic Day.
Senior Superintendent of Police Navin Arora said the police action followed specific information of that said some men were on their way to Delhi from Ghaziabad in a Maruti carrying arms and ammunition.
The ATS, after receiving the inputs, chased the alleged terrorists who were travelling in a white Maruti from Ghaziabad. The terrorists fired at the ATS team which returned the fire.
The encounter took place at 0240 hrs IST. Two AK 47s and five hand grenades and some incriminating documents were recovered from the car, said the report on the IBNLive website.
A UP ATS constable was also injured in the encounter.
(Update)
"Two AK-47 rifles, four magazines, 120 live bullets, five hand grenades, detonators, nine RDX shells, a Maruti 800 car, Pakistani passports, some documents and Rs 18,000 were recovered from the terrorists," UP police ADG Brij Lall was quoted as saying.
The police later confirmed that the terrorists were Pakistani, after a Pakistani passport was found in the vehicle. The second man allegedly confirmed their identity after being captured just before dying.
"Both militants were injured and taken to hospital. One of the injured terrorists said he is Farooq from Akara in Pakistan, and he named the other terrorist as Abu Ismail of Rawalkote in Pakistan. Both of them died on way to hospital," informed the ADG.
(With Inputs from NDTTV and IBNLive)
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