NEW DELHI, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Indian investigators Friday said the two gunmen who killed 30 worshipers at a Hindu temple earlier this week as Pakistani nationals.
The Press Trust of India quoted police sources as saying one of the men was identified as Mohammed Amjad Bhai of Lahore, Pakistan, and the other as Hafiz Yasir of Attock, near Islamabad.
Police detained the driver and the owner of the car in that they said the militants drove up to the Swaminarayan temple in Gandhinagar town of western Gujarat state on Tuesday. The state was the scene of religious clashes in February that left more than 1,200 people, mostly Muslim, dead.
The driver of the hired car, Raju, who was identified by one name, said the attackers had arrived in Ahmedabad city the same day by train and asked to go to the famous Swaminarayan temple. He said he didn't know he was carrying two gunmen in his car.
Armed with AK-47s, the two men raided the temple packed with worshipers, killed 30 people and wounded 50 others.
Indian commandoes killed the two attackers after a nightlong chase in the 25-acre temple complex.
Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishan Advani earlier hinted that Pakistan was behind the attack, a charge Islamabad denied. Pakistan condemned the attack.
The attackers were carrying leaflets of "Tehrik-e-Kasas," or Movement for Revenge, an outfit formed to avenge the killings of more than 1,000 Muslims in religious clashes earlier this year.
