Terrorists used vermillion, religious thread

MUMBAI: Hindu religious thread on militants' wrist? Terrorists, who carried out the most audacious attack, tied the threads and applied vermillion on their foreheads to pass off as locals in case they were intercepted by Indian naval forces.
      
After murdering four fishermen onboard a trawler in the Arabian sea, the militants saw that the boat had several things including a "mauli" (religious thread used in Hindu religion), official sources said.
       
An arrested militant Ajmal Amin told the interrogators that when their hijacked fishing boat was approaching the Indian shores, they saw some Navy men.
      
Immediately, they tied the threads and some of them even put on vermilion to look like Hindus, the sources quoting the arrested militant said.
       
However, the militants managed to docked at Sasool in Cuff Parade from where they reached Gateway of India to carry out the attacks and were not intercepted by the naval forces.
       
The fishermen, while going out fishing in high seas, usually carry things to perform prayers.