Police suspect LeT hand in Ayodhya attack
"The modus operandi of the attack indicates that it was carried out by militants, owing allegiance to LeT," police said.
Police are yet to establish the identity of the five terrorists killed during the attack on the makeshift Ram temple on Tuesday but they suspect that they belonged to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
"The modus operandi of the attack indicates that it was carried out by militants, owing allegiance to LeT," Senior Superintendent of Police, Special Task Force, Akhil Kumar said.
"The way the militants forced their entry into the complex by carrying out an explosion is the method generally adopted by the LeT," he said.
SSP Faizabad Avinash Chandra said that police was working on "some leads" and expressed confidence that the security agencies would very soon establish the identity of the slain terrorists.
He said the statements of the arrested driver of the jeep used in the attack, Rehan were being verified. Rehan had visited Saudi Arabia a few years back and his possible links there were being probed.
When asked whether the militants made their way into the country via Nepal, Chandra said so far, there was no such evidence to buttress this theory but added that "we are not ruling out anything."
He said police teams had been sent to the neighbouring Ambedkar Nagar district to find out if the five terrorists had any links in the town as it was suspected that they had stayed there for a few days before coming to Faizabad.
