Terror attack foiled in Mysore, two held

A possible terror attack was foiled late Thursday night in Mysore. Two suspected terrorists were arrested by the police after a shootout on the ring road in Vijaynagar just outside the city.

Two policemen were also injured in the shootout.The terror suspects have been identified as Mohammad Fahad and Ali Hussain. According to the police they were Pakistanis.One AK-47 rifle, a pistol, a satellite phone, a digital watch were found on them. An Al Badr letter-head was also recovered from their possession.

Brush with terror

Meanwhile DGP Karnataka BS Sial said the hunt is on for other terrorists, who were a part of the same group.The terrorists had been in Mysore for the past three months. While one came to the city eight months ago, the other terrorist had come three months back. They had bought a store in Mysore as well.

The men had surveyed the Vikas Soudha building, an extension of the Vidhan Soudha in Bangalore. The police said the terrorists had big targets in mind and the Vikas Soudha building was on the hit list.

Karnataka's first major brush with terror was on December 28 last year, when a lone terrorist drove into the sprawling campus of Bangalore's Indian Institute of Science.He then fired indiscriminately, killing one professor from New Delhi and injuring three others. In that incident as well, the terrorist had used an AK-47 rifle.

Source ndtv.com