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Shootout In Lucknow As Police Corners Suspected ISIS Millitant
Swarajya Staff
Mar 07, 2017, 05:59 PM | Updated 05:58 PM IST
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The police have cornered a suspected ISIS terrorist in the Thankurganj locality of Lucknow according to reports. The anti-terrorist operation is being headed by the Inspector General of the Lucknow Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS).
According to the Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Daljit Chaudhary, the encounter was carried out after intelligence reports came in from Kanpur.
We had received inputs about presence of some suspects in Kanpur and Lucknow, our senior officials searched. One suspect arrested from Kanpur, the second one is inside a building in Thakurganj. He has not come out yet. The suspect inside the building is possibly from Lucknow, we suspect that he has weapons. We are suspecting presence of only one suspect inside the building, input came in from outside the state.Hope to arrest him soon, will interrogate thereafter.Daljit Chaudhary, ADG (Law and Order) to ANI News
According to Gaurav C Sawant of India Today, the first tip-off came from Kerala where there is a suspected ISIS module. The police have now cornered the suspect inside a building in Haji Colony in Thakurganj where a gunfire battle is going on between the two sides.
With Inputs From ANI.
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