AHMEDABAD, March 17: Indian police shot dead four suspected militants in Gujarat on Friday and said the men were planning to attack religious sites in the region. Police were conducting routine searches in Ahmedabad after midnight when they were shot at from a house and they returned fire, state police chief A.K. Bhargava said.

“Two of them were Pakistanis and the other two Kashmiris,” he said.

Another police officer said the men were from the Harkatul Mujahideen.

Their identities were established through leaflets, telephone diaries and mobile phones found in the house, police officer P.P. Pande said. Four pistols and some explosives were also found.

“They had planned to bomb religious places and also train other terrorist cells,” he added.—Reuters