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Police gun down two hit men allegedly intent on killing state ministers AHMEDABAD, India, Monday (AFP) Police in the western Indian state of Gujarat Monday shot dead two hit men from a gang led by a notorious mafia don who were allegedly bent on killing two state ministers, a senior police official said. The two men - identified as Mahindra Yadav and Ganesh Kotte - had come to Gujarat to carry out the assassinations as well as to disrupt an annual Hindu festival beginning next week, the official said. The two, from a gang led by don Dawood Ibrahim, were killed in a shootout in the Panchkuaa area of Gujarat's commercial capital Ahmedabad in the early hours of Monday. Police had been tipped off about their presence in the area. The two ministers on the hit list were Ashok Bhat and Bharat Barot, both of whom were allegedly involved in stoking bloody Hindu-Muslim riots in February-March last year in which about 2,000 people - mostly Muslims - were killed. The riots were sparked when a mob, believed to be predominantly Muslims, torched a train carrying Hindu pilgrims and activists in the Gujarat town of Godhra on February 27, killing 58 people. Ibrahim, believed to be based in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, is wanted in India for killings, extortions and kidnappings. Ibrahim allegedly masterminded a series of bomb blasts that killed more than 300 people in Bombay in 1993. |
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