The Red Fort was sealed off after the attack Police in India are searching for a suspected Kashmiri suicide squad who staged an attack on the historic Red Fort in Delhi, killing three people. The famous red sandstone fort not only houses a military garrison, but is also one of India's interrogation centres where hundreds of Muslim separatists have been questioned in the past. The BBC South Asia correspondent, Mike Wooldridge, says there are few more high-profile targets in India than the Red Fort. Independence from Britain was proclaimed from its ramparts half a century ago.
Police say the gunmen entered the fort and killed a guard, an army barber and a soldier.
They then headed for the museum within the fort complex and opened fire at the guards and other people there. An army reaction team fired back, but after several hours of combing the warren-like building, the police concluded that the gunmen had probably slipped away in the darkness. They described it in one call as a suicide attack. The group has admitted responsibility for a number of other such attacks in Kashmir. The attack came the day after the Indian Government extended its current unilateral ceasefire in Kashmir by a month.