Mumbai gunmen 'links to UK' probed
The nationality of the terrorists responsible for attacking Mumbai remains unclear as the Foreign Office said there was still "no evidence" to suggest any of them were British.
Reports began to emerge on Friday from India that UK-born Muslims were involved in carrying out the massacre, which has claimed the lives of 195 people.
The end of the siege at the Taj Mahal hotel overnight, in which police said the remaining two terrorists had been killed, brought to a halt three days of terror in the city.
Reports said seven of the gunmen had British links and quoted Indian sources claiming that suspects from Leeds, Hartlepool and Bradford, as well as British-born Pakistanis, were involved.
Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister of Maharashtra state - of which Mumbai is the capital, was reported to have said that two Pakistanis of British descent were among eight terrorists arrested during the sieges.
But a spokesman for the Foreign Office said later: "We have spoken to Indian authorities at a high level and they have said that there is no evidence that any of the terrorists either captured or dead are British."
Referring to the comments reportedly made by Mr Deshmukh, he added: "He said no such thing, either publicly or privately."
Speculation linking the attackers with Bradford was also dismissed by the Leeds-based Counter Terrorism Unit.
A statement from officers said: "At this stage we are not in receipt of any intelligence or information linking the events in India to our area."
Senior Whitehall sources said it was too early to say whether there had been any involvement by British nationals but that security services, working with overseas partners, would be looking at any potential links to the UK.
