Indian police hunted down and killed a suspected Kashmiri militant believed to be the mastermind of a daring 2005 attack on a disputed holy shrine, police said on Saturday. Acting on a tip off, police in the city of Jammu cornered the man, identified as Saifullah Karri, and killed him before dawn on Saturday, said Jammu Inspector General of Police SP Vaid. Vaid said Karri was a leader of Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group, and a mastermind of the attack, where a suicide bomber blew himself up in a jeep, tearing a hole in railings surrounding the Hindu shrine in Ayodhya. Five gunmen then burst through the hole, getting to within 15 meters of its inner sanctum before being killed by guards in a fierce gunbattle.
