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Indian police kill suspected militant hit squad AHMEDABAD, India, Tuesday (Reuters) Indian police shot dead four suspected militants, including a woman, on Tuesday who authorities said were plotting to assassinate the chief minister of Gujarat state. Gujarat, in western India, was the scene of vicious religious violence in 2002. Chief Minister Narendra Modi was accused of turning a blind eye to the slaughter of hundreds of Muslims in response to an attack on Hindus. "Police had intelligence inputs that they were in town to kill the chief minister. All four were killed in an encounter early this morning," a police official told Reuters. Police said two of the dead were Pakistanis, but declined to say how they knew that. Investigators were trying to determine what militant group the four belonged to.The four were intercepted in a car near the airport in Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city. Two foreign-made pistols and one AK-56 assault rifle were recovered, police said. Police say they have foiled several plots to kill Modi, the hardline leader of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government in Gujarat, over the past two years. |
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