Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 6: Police arrested two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants from Srinagar, a day ahead of music concert featuring world renowned orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta while they are looking for a third one who has probably fled from Srinagar city.
Sources identified the militants as Javed Ahmad of Chanpora and Irfan of Sopore. They were arrested from Chanapora locality of Srinagar during the intervening night of September 4 and 5.
Sources said that an AK rifle and a pistol were recovered from their possession.
During questioning, the two militants led the police to a shop in Maisuma where they had stored two hand grenades for possible use in the commercial hub of the city.
Sources said that the militants had entered the city a week back and one of their colleagues had probably fled from Srinagar city after the arrest of the two militants. Police, however, are keeping a close eye on the movement of the third militant.
Little known militant groups, Al Nasireen, Farzandan-e-Milat and Shuhda Brigade had threatened to target western tourists in Kashmir if the German Ambassador to India remained adamant about holding the event.
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