<p>Wednesday March 08, 2006,Lucknow: Hours after the blasts in Varanasi, a suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militant was shot dead in an encounter with the police in Gosaiganj area on the outskirts of the city early this morning.</p>
<p>Police identified the militant as Salar alias Doctor and did not rule out his involvement in yesterday's blasts at the Sankatmochan temple and Cantonment Railway station in Varanasi, which claimed at least twenty lives.</p>