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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Taiwanese tourists shot in attack at Delhi mosque AFP - 53 minutes ago Send IM Story Print Taiwanese tourists shot in attack at Delhi mosque NEW DELHI (AFP) - – Attackers on a motorbike opened fire with a sub-machine gun on a tourist bus outside the biggest mosque in New Delhi Sunday, injuring two Taiwanese in an assault claimed by Indian Islamists. The incident came just a fortnight before the start of the Commonwealth Games, when 7,000 foreign athletes and officials are expected in the Indian capital, and is likely to raise anxiety in participating teams. Authorities however called for calm and police cast doubt about the emailed claim of responsibility from the Indian Mujahideen group, which also threatened more violence to disrupt the Games. "The claim sent to various media outlets is not reliable because the attack was carried out in a very unprofessional and crude manner, which no organised terrorist group would do," a senior policeman told AFP, asking not to be named. Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said the attack, which saw the passenger on the motorbike open fire, was the work of a "disgruntled gang of criminals". Witnesses and police said two men wearing raincoats and helmets drove up to the mosque in the heart of the historic old city, with the passenger then opening fire at the mosque and then at the minibus of Taiwanese tourists. They made off at high speed into the surrounding narrow alleys, evading police. Two male Taiwanese tourists on a nine-day tour of northern India and its historic cities, including the Taj Mahal town of Agra, were injured, one seriously, after he was shot in the stomach. The other suffered a superficial head injury. Both men, aged 26 and 27, were treated in New Delhi's Lok Narayan Jay Prakash hospital, medics said. Indian officials have been repeatedly forced to defend security arrangements ahead of the October 3-14 Commonwealth Games, a multi-sport event that brings together athletes from countries and territories in the former British empire. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attack in an email sent to the Press Trust of India and other media outlets. It said the raid was a "tribute" to two men killed by New Delhi police after a series of bomb blasts in the capital in September 2008 that were claimed by the group. It added: "We are warning you. If you have the guts, then organise the Commonwealth Games... We know that preparations are in full swing. Be prepared... We are also making preparations," PTI quoted the email as saying. Organisers of the Games, the most expensive in the history of the event and also far behind schedule and mired in corruption allegations, attempted to play down any threat. "The shooting incident this morning in Delhi will have no impact on the Commonwealth Games," organising committee secretary-general Lalit Bhanot said in a statement. "The ministry of home affairs and Delhi police have made elaborate arrangements to provide the Commonwealth Games athletes and officials a safe and secure environment." Chief minister of New Delhi, Sheila Dikshit, told the NDTV news channel it was "a very sad incident". "I appeal to everybody: please do not panic. An incident like this is worrying but nothing to panic about," Dikshit said. The attack was the second outside the 17th century Jama Masjid mosque in recent years. In April 2006, two small bombs went off after early evening prayers, leaving 14 people wounded. India is constantly on guard against attacks from Islamist groups, particularly the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, which New Delhi blamed for the Mumbai 2008 atrocities and a 2002 attack on the national parliament. Home Minister P. Chidambaram warned last month, however, that Hindu extremists posed an increasing risk to national security, dubbing the threat "saffron terror". The country is also on edge ahead of a court ruling on Friday on a religious dispute that sparked Hindu-Muslim violence in 1992 which left an estimated 2,000 people dead. The court is set to rule on a decades-old fight for ownership of the Babri Mosque in the temple town of Ayodhya. 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