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NEW DELHI, Monday (AFP) Two Islamic militants gunned down by police in New Delhi's best-known shopping mall were unaware that they were being hunted, a chief of the city's counter-terrorism force said.

"We set up a trap with 30 fully-equipped men at Ansal Plaza as we zeroed down on (intelligence) inputs that there would be an attack on the shopping plaza," said Ashok Chand, deputy commissioner of the special police cell.

The cell, set up in the 1980s originally to keep tabs on visiting foreigners, is now the most secretive wing of the 71,000-member Delhi Police Department and is tasked with preventing terrorist strikes in the Indian capital and elsewhere.

The three-storey plaza was packed with hundreds of people shopping on the eve of the Hindu festival of Diwali when Chand's men cornered the pair in the basement of the complex and shot them dead. 

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