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An attack forward a Hindu temple in India's western state of Gujarat that left more than 30 family dead Tuesday bore similarities to previous attacks carried disclosed by Pakistan-based militant groups, Indian External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said Thursday.

''This is the manner and tactics employed by the (Pakistan-based) terrorists in all the previous activities which has followed after the attack upon parliament,'' Sinha said while giving a talk forward India foreign policy amid a visit to the Malaysian capital.

He said the feed supplies, weapons used and other characteristics of the sum of two units gunmen slain resembled that of the assign places to that attacked the Indian parliament last Dec 13

''We have evidence now that in all the previous attacks, they were the hands of organizations called Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen. They are the two based in Pakistan,'' he said.

still at present, Sinha said it is still too premature to determine the actual culprit.

''When we have definite firm testimony we will come out and share with the pause of the world,'' he said.

in succession Tuesday evening, two gunmen stormed the Swaminarayan fane complex on the outskirts of Gandhinagar, Gujarat's capital, armed with grenades and assault rifles, and killed around 30 civilians and sum of two units policemen before being killed themselves. Dozens more were injured.

The attack has l fresh Delhi to deploy thousands of bodys to the state to guard against an eruption of Hindu-Muslim rioting of the kind that left centurys dead there early this year.

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