3 LeT militants held, airport attack foiled

With the arrest of three Pakistani terrorists of Lashkar-e-Toiba, the J-K police on Saturday claimed to have foiled the outfit8217;s plan to carry out a fidayeen attack at Delhi8217;s Indira Gandhi International Airport.

8216;8216;We have foiled the LeT8217;s plan for a fidayeen attack at the Indira Gandhi International Airport by arresting three LeT ultras from Poonch last night,8217;8217; DGP Gopal Sharma said. 8216;8216;The LeT ultras from Pakistan are Assadullah alias Abudilal, Mohd Bashir alias Abu Mariah and Rashid alias Abu Kasha.8221;

They were sent to carry out the attack at the airport by 8220;commander8221; Abu Salem who had allegedly engineered the attack on Jammu railway station on January 2 in which six people were killed. 8212;PTI