NEW DELHI, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- The suspected mastermind behind the bombing of India's Parliment was killed in a gun battle with Indian authorities Saturday.
Indian security forces and police fought two gunbattles in Kashmir and New Delhi, killing the man they say planned a deadly attack on the Indian parliament. Several members of his group also died, CNN reported.
Police in Jammu and Kashmir said the Indian Border Security Force fought for hours with a group of suspected militants in Srinagar before entering the house where they were hiding.
Two of the suspected militants were killed, police said. One member of the Indian security force was killed and nine were wounded.
One of the dead militants, Indian officials told CNN, was Ghazi Baba, the commander-in-chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed, or the Army of Muhammad, believed to have been the mastermind of the attack on Parliament on Dec. 13, 2001.
