New Delhi - The only gunman captured during the three-day terrorist attack on Mumbai said he was part of a group that was specially trained for the operation in camps run by the Islamic militant group the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) in Pakistan, news reports said Monday.

Ajmal Amir Kasav, 21, said during interrogation that he was among 24 youths who were given one year of training at a LET camp in Mansera and Muzaffarabad in Pakistan, Times of India newspaper reported citing police sources.

"Ten of us were later hand picked for the Mumbai operation," Kasav told his interrogators.

Groups of heavily armed gunmen, who are believed to have reached Mumbai by a sea route, attacked two five-star hotels, a railway station a hospital and other targets, killing 188 people and injuring over 300. Thirty foreigners were among those who died.

Kasav, who is believed to have opened fire at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal railway station and later at the Cama hospital, was arrested on Wednesday night.

The police said he was the same person whose image was captured by CCTV cameras at the railway station.

The images showed a clean-shaven young man in his early twenties, dressed in a blue T-shirt and carrying an automatic rifle and a heavy satchel.

Kasav speaks fluent English and is from Gipalpura in Faridkot district of Pakistan, police sources were quoted as saying.

Both Kasav and his colleague were wounded in an encounter with the police. A police inspector and Kasav's colleague, who has been identified as Abu Ismael, were killed in the exchange of fire.

During the interrogation, Kasav said a former soldier, Abdul Rahman, popularly known as Chacha (uncle), had trained them.

"He said the first phase was hard physical training followed by three months of running up to 15 kilometres a day," Times of India quoted police sources as saying.

The next three months were devoted to marine training including swimming, surfing, diving and sailing in the high seas. The rest included arms and ammunition training, the sources said.

After the year's training the group was sent to Mumbai for "a short internship." During this period, Kasav said he did reconnaissance of the city.

Kasav also said the group of 10 left Pakistan's port city of Karachi in a single boat, the Mumbai Mirror newspaper reported.

When they approached the Gujarat coast they hoisted a white flag. They were intercepted by an Indian coast guard vessel and they killed one officer and forced the other to take them towards Mumbai.

Nearing Mumbai, they killed the other officer and were picked up by three speedboats.

They reached the jetty at Colaba near the Gateway of India and broke into groups of two and moved towards their targets.

Ammunition, a satellite phone and a layout plan of the CST railway station was recovered from Kasav.

According to the Mumbai Mirror, Kasav, during his interrogation, said the chief planner of the Mumbai terror plot had come to the city a month ago, took pictures and filmed strategic locations and had instructed their group to "kill till the last breath."

Each member was given six to seven magazines with 50 bullets each, eight hand grenades, one AK-57 rifle, an automatic loading revolver and a supply of dry fruits.

Azam was initially kept under high security in a casualty ward of a Mumbai hospital but was moved to an undisclosed location on Thursday after hospital authorities said he was in stable condition. (dpa)