Centre issues alert for Mumbai, Ahmedabad

NEW DELHI: Acting on specific Intelligence inputs that Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar- e-Taiba was planning to strike Mumbai and Ahmedabad, the Centre has sounded an alert for the two cities and asked authorities there to tighten security.

The police forces of the two cities have been put on high alert and specific instructions have been issued for taking all possible steps to foil any attempt by LeT terrorists to disturb peace, official sources said.

The Intelligence inputs suggested that LeT teams have already entered Mumbai and Ahmedabad and may strike at any time.

Security forces have already launched "house-to-house" searches in some specific areas. Additional forces have been deployed in all sensitive and crowded places, including markets, religious places, bus and railway stations.

Both Mumbai and Ahmedabad had faced several terrorist attacks in the past including the November 26, 2008 strike in the commercial capital and September 25, 2002 attack on the Akshardham temple in the Gujarat capital.