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JAMMU, India, Nov 25 (Reuters) - A banned Pakistan-based guerrilla group has claimed responsibility for an attack on two temples in Indian Kashmir and threatened more such attacks, the state police chief said on Monday.

Jammu and Kashmir Director-General of Police A.K. Suri told reporters a caller claiming to be from the Lashkar-e-Taiba group rang his house and said the group had carried out the attack on two Hindu temples in which at least 11 people have died.

"He said there will be more attacks in future," Suri said, as security forces exchanged more gunfire with at least one militant who had taken shelter in a house near one of the Hindu temples in the state's winter capital Jammu.

Lashkar-e-Taiba is one of two Pakistan-based groups blamed by New Delhi for carrying out militant attacks in India, including a December raid on the Indian parliament which triggered a military standoff between the nuclear-armed neighbours. 

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