India’s Mumbai on alert; terror plot suspected
Officials hunt suspected members of same group that killed 166 people in 2008
Police launched a manhunt in India’s financial and entertainment capital Friday for alleged Pakistani militants authorities believe entered Mumbai to carry out a terrorist attack, a police official said.
Police said they had received credible information that at least four men belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group had entered the city and were planning to strike during the holiday season, said Himanshu Roy, joint police commissioner of Mumbai Police.
Police set up checkpoints along major roads in the city, put additional men on patrol duty at public places and released computer photographs of the four suspects.
“It is going to be a violent attack which will cause disruptions,” Roy said, releasing the sketch of one of the four suspected militants.
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..The four men were named as Abdul Karim Musa, Noor Abul Elahi, Walid Jinnah and Mehfooz Alam.
“They have recently arrived in Mumbai. We are not in a position to reveal their nationalities now but they are LeT members,” he said.
Indian authorities blame LeT for a deadly three-day terror attack in Mumbai in November 2008 in which 166 people were killed.