NEW DELHI - Police in India have arrested four suspected Kashmir militants after a shootout in the national capital New Delhi, officials said Monday. Nearly three kilogrammes of high-intensity RDX explosive and six hand grenades were seized from the militants belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammed (Army of Mohammed) after a gun-battle on Sunday night, senior Delhi police official Karnal Singh told reporters.“A police team was tracking the men on a tip-off about their movements. They fired on the policemen near the central Connaught Place area after realizing that they were being followed,” Singh said. “More than 25 rounds of fire were exchanged before the militants were arrested. There were no injuries in the cross-firing,” he added.
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Besides the explosives, four detonators and a timer and some arms and ammunition were also recovered from the men, Singh said, claiming the police had foiled a terrorist attack. “The large quantity of explosives recovered shows they had bad intentions, but the details would be known only after we complete the interrogation,” he said.