Terrorist pair in Mumbai ahead of Ganesh Utsav

MUMBAI: With the 10-day Ganesh festival starting Saturday, police Friday said that two suspected terrorists had entered Mumbai with a view to create disturbances.

Joint Police Commissioner Himanshu Roy told reporters that intelligence reports received by the police and state home department said the pair -- said to be a Bangladeshi and a Pakistani -- entered Mumbai sometime ago.

The police fear that the two may carry out attacks during the Ganesh festival, which is celebrated in Mumbai and rest of Maharashtra on a grand scale.