Lashkar's Hand Suspected in Bangalore Shootout

Press Trust of India
Hindustan Times
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Bangalore, Karnataka (India):
Police on Thursday did not rule out the involvement of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in the terror attack at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus as two more hand grenades were recovered from the premises.
Speaking to reporters at the JN Tata auditorium complex, the scene of terrorist attack, which left dead a retired professor of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and wounded four others, Police Commissioner Ajay Kumar Singh did not rule out the hand of the Pak-based terrorist outfit, which reportedly had the IISc on its hit list.
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Suspected terrorists had barged into the IISc campus and sprayed bullets indiscriminately, killing MC Puri, Professor Emeritus in Mathematics Department of Delhi, IIT, and wounding four others.
Police sources said two more hand grenades were recovered on Thursday morning during the combing operation, in addition to the one live grenade packed in a cotton pouch found on Wednesday soon after the attack.
An AK-47 like weapon, 11 empty cartridges and two live magazines of an automatic weapon were also recovered on Wednesday.
Dec 29, 2005