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UK links to Mumbai attack?

Updated on 28 November 2008

By Nick Paton Walsh

Maharashtra's chief minister says two British-born Pakistanis are among eight militants arrested by the authorities.

Meanwhile, the British authorities are trying to find out if any Britons were involved in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

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A group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility, but security officials have also said the planning and scale of the attacks pointed to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group.

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