MUMBAI: Police have arrested three suspected militants in western India and recovered a cache of weapons and explosives, an officer said on Wednesday.
The arrests were made late on Tuesday near Aurangabad town in Maharashtra state, some 400km east of Mumbai, India’s financial hub.
“Three people have been arrested. We suspect that they are members of Lashkar-i-Taiba,” a senior official of the Mumbai’s anti-terrorist police squad, which made the arrests, said. He did not want to give his name. Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar has been blamed for several major bomb blasts in Indian cities in the past few years.—Reuters
