An ISIS flag was found near the body of the terror suspect in Thakurganj near Lucknow
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Terror suspect found dead in a house after 12-hour operation near Lucknow
Police say Saifullah was an active member of terror group ISIS
He's believed to be involved in explosion on a train in Madhya Pradesh
The operation began around 3.30 pm yesterday, when reports emerged that the police were hunting for two terror suspects hiding in the house. At 6 pm, the police said it would be over in a few hours, but the stand-off stretched into dawn.
For hours, the police negotiated with the suspect to get him to surrender and even got him to speak to his brother, senior Anti-Terror Squad officer Aseem Arun said today. Chilli bombs were used to draw him out, but nothing worked, he added.
Eight pistols, 650 rounds of ammunition, 50 fired rounds, explosives, gold, cash, passports, SIM cards and a train time table were found along with the body. "The danger was grave, but we managed to avert it... Had we caught him alive, we would have extracted more information, but we had no choice," Mr Arun said.

Ammunition, cash, mobile phones were found from the house in Thakurganj near Lucknow where terror suspect Saifullah was found dead after a 12-hour operation
The police had initially suspected that two terrorists were hiding inside the house. The forces had drilled a hole in the roof and spotted two weapons, from which they concluded there were two men. They found one body on the blood-splattered floor. There were two gaping holes in the wall, where the police had drilled holes to shoot.

The police said Saifullah was believed to be involved in the explosion on a train travelling from Ujjain to Bhopal on Tuesday morning, in which nine people were injured.
CCTV footage from near the train explosion site had helped the police to identify the suspects; two were arrested from Kanpur and one from Etawah in Uttar Pradesh. Three more were arrested in Madhya Pradesh.
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