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December 29, 2005
India: Did Islamist Shoot Delhi Scientists?
Today's Calcutta Telegraph reports that a professor has been killed and four other academic scientists wounded, in an attack by a masked gunman outside an auditorium of the Indian Institute of Science.
The killer fled in a white Ambassador car which waited nearby. The man who died, M.C. Puri, was mathematics professor emeritus at India's Institute of Technology in Delhi.
The gunman had opened fire with an AK 47 as soon as the delegates to a conference at the auditorium began to leave the building. He also shot at a car, smashing the windscreen.
Police so far are unwilling to speculate on who committed the attacks, but the Telegraph states: "On Monday, Delhi and Bengal police had arrested three suspected militants, with Bangladesh links, who were said to be planning strikes on information technology hubs in Bangalore and Hyderabad."
At least one of the three men arrested was a member of Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami, a Bangladeshi Islamic terror group, headed by the now-jailed Mufti Hannan.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at December 29, 2005 10:06 AM
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