Uttar Pradesh police bust Al-Qaeda module, nab two suspected suicide-bombers

UP police said that the nabbed terrorists were being handled from Peshawar and Quetta in Pakistan

Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) personnel outside the house from where two accused allegedly linked with Al Qaeda module were arrested.

The duo had reportedly planned suicide attacks at crowded areas.

A pressure cooker bomb and other heavy explosives recovered.

A pistol and IED were also recovered from the house of Minhaj.

The anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh police on Sunday claimed to have busted an Al-Qaeda module in Lucknow after it arrested two suspected terrorists, who had planned suicide attacks at crowded areas and recovered a huge quantity of explosive materials from them.

UP additional director general of police, law and order, Prashant Kumar told reporters in Lucknow that the two suspected terrorists, who were associated with Al Qaeda's Ansar Ghazawat-ul-Hind outfit, were identified as Minhaj Ahmed and Musheeruddin alias Musheer.

''They planned attacks at crowded places in the state capital and other cities in the state before the Independence Day... We are trying to find out about their accomplices and searches are being conducted at different places,'' Kumar said.

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He also said that the nabbed terrorists were being handled from Peshawar and Quetta in Pakistan.

Police officials said that the suspects were nabbed from a house in the Kakori area, on the outskirts of the state capital.

''Bomb-making material and other explosives were recovered from the house,'' said another senior police officer.

He added that a pistol and IED were also recovered from the house of Minhaj.

The officials said that the terrorists planned to eliminate some prominent politicians. The ATS sleuths surrounded the area and conducted house to house searches.

''It is likely that some of their accomplices may have fled,'' the official added.