- NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Two
Muslim gunmen who attacked a Hindu temple in western India this week and
shot dead 28 people were Pakistani nationals, the Press Trust of India
(PTI) news agency reported Friday, citing security sources.
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- A federal Interior Ministry official would not comment
on the report. "I don't have anything to say," he told Reuters.
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- PTI said one of the gunmen was from Lahore and the other
from Attock city, 50 miles west of Islamabad.
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- The report said it was not known yet which militant group
the two men may have belonged to.
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- The gunmen, armed with automatic weapons and grenades,
were killed by Indian commandos Wednesday after an overnight siege at Akshardham
temple in Gandhinagar, capital of Gujarat state.
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