New Delhi: India’s foreign intelligence agencies have warned the country of an impending terror attack which may be planned by Lashkar-e-Taiba coinciding with the upcoming visit of US President Barack Obama as a chief guest of the 2015 Republic Day.
Sources in Indian intelligence agencies said that they are paying special attention to five terror suspects who escaped from a prison in Madhya Pradesh in October last year and have still not been found.Â
The Lashkar, which is based in Pakistan, is responsible for the 26/11 siege of Mumbai in which 166 people were killed in 2008. Intelligence sources said that recent phone intercepts reveal Lashkar handlers talking to the escaped terror suspects about being tasked to an attack.
The Home Ministry is also reviewing alerts about a possible “lone wolf” attack by one or more of the jailbirds, who were accused of being members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI. Â
This morning, Delhi police officials have reviewed security arrangements at schools after yesterday’s deadly strike in Peshawar in North West Pakistan, where nearly 130 children were shot dead in an army-run school.