NEW DELHI - THREE of the militants who attacked India's financial capital have confessed they are members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group, the Hindu newspaper reported on Friday.

Lashkar-e-Taiba, one of the largest Islamist militant groups in South Asia, denied on Thursday that it had any role in the attacks that killed 125 people and wounded 315.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the assault was carried out by groups based outside India.

One of the militants was a resident of Faridkot in Pakistan's Punjab province, the Hindu said, citing unidentified police investigators.

'Based on the interrogation of the suspects, the investigators believe that one or more groups of Lashkar operatives left Karachi in a merchant ship early on Wednesday,' the newspaper said.

It said the group came ashore at Mumbai on a small boat and then split up into small teams to attack multiple locations. -- REUTERS, AFP

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