In pics: The 13-hour Lucknow gunbattle between police and Islamic State suspect

Police say they have killed an Islamic State-inspired militant suspected of masterminding the bombing of a passenger train that injured eight people in Madhya Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh Police say they have killed an Islamic State-inspired man suspected of planning the bombing of a train that injured eight people in Madhya Pradesh.

An Islamic State flag and other items seized by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad from a building where a suspected militant was holed up. (ATS handout)

Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad inspector general Aseem Arun said the militant was a member of the Indian module of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group called Khorasan. The ATS engaged the suspect in a 13-hour gunbattle overnight on Tuesday after tracking him down at the home of a Muslim cleric on the outskirts of Lucknow.

A police officer identified the suspect as Saifullah, and said he was wanted in connection with Tuesday’s train blast near Bhopal.

Here are photos of the ATS operation and the building where the suspect was hiding:

The ATS reached the cleric’s house in a thickly populated locality on the outskirts of Lucknow around 2pm after specific inputs.

The commandos came under a volley of fire when they moved in, forcing the officers to use stakeout and stealth.

After a nine-hour sporadic gunfight, police said the suspect was wounded but still holed up in the house.

About 300 police personnel, including ATS commandos, were engaging the militant in Lucknow’s Kakori area.

Members of the press and others look on as an operation against a suspected Islamic State-inspired militant continues.

Police officers make a hole in a wall of the building where the suspect was hiding to send in optical fibre cameras.

Items seized from the building where the militant was holed up.

Holes created by the Uttar Pradesh Police to send in optical fibre cameras into a building where they said an Islamic State-inspired militant was hiding.

The body of the suspected militant being taken away by the police.

A daily schedule found at the building where the suspected militant was hiding.

A map of the Indian Railways found from the house where the suspected militant was holed up.

Security forces after the operation against the suspected militant concluded.