By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : Two HuJI militants wanted in connection with the serial blasts in Delhi and Ahmedabad were today killed in a fierce encounter in Jamia Nagar of south Delhi that left two Delhi police personnel injured.
The two militants have been identified as Atiq alias Bashar and Faqruddin, who were also members of the banned SIMI, and hailed from Azamgarh in eastern Uttar Pradesh state, official sources said, adding one militant was arrested.
The slain militants were from the proscribed Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islamia and were involved in the serial bomb blasts in the national capital that claimed 24 lives on Saturday and Ahmedabad terror strike in July in which 77 people were killed, they said.
Two militants were suspected to have escaped during the raid on the house where the five terrorists were holed up, Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh told reporters here.
The militant, arrested after being injured in the operation, was identified as Saif. He has been admitted to hospital.
The name of Atiq figured during the interrogation of Abu Bashar, one of the prime suspects in Ahmedabad blasts. He was brought to the national capital yesterday and taken to Jamia Nagar to identify the place where he had stayed along with Mohammed Usman Qureshi alias Tauqeer, the brain behind the serial blasts in the country.
Police suspect that the militants were planning to carry out more terror strikes in the national capital besides targeting some VIPs.