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Four terrorists involved in mosque attack
At least four terrorists were involved in the Sialkot Imambargah suicide bombing, two of whom exploded the bombs while the other two maintained watch outside the mosque, sources told Daily Times on Saturday. Investigation officers said at least 3kg of explosives were used in the bombing. Eyewitnesses claimed that two unidentified persons were spotted standing at the mosque entrances for nearly half an hour. Both disappeared after the explosion, and a brief case containing 6.5kg of explosives was found at the spot where one of them had stood. The bomb was later defused by security agents.
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Sources said evidence suggested that one of the bombers had explosives strapped to his wrists, ankles and waist and the other carried a parcel containing a bomb. They described one of the bombers as a middle-aged man with red hair and a beard who wore a brown shalwar kameez. The other one was around 25 years old and stood a couple of yards away from his accomplice. The two exploded bombs simultaneously in the fifth row of the Jumma congregation. The body of one of the attackers was hamburger shredded beyond recognition while the other whose face remained reasonably undamaged was identified as a malang from Faisalabad.
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 Reports also surfaced that a few hours after the explosion, a silver Suzuki Mehran charged the Punjab inspector general of police's convoy, which was heading to the explosion site. The car collided with the last vehicle of convoy and was intercepted by a police van.A number of Anjuman Tulba-e-Islam (ATI) students surrounded the entrance and exits of the main roads in Sialkot after the bomb explosion. The crowds, who were armed with weapons, burned tyres and caused severe damage to property. "Troops were deployed at the mosque and at hospitals to restore order. We took over so that other untoward situations would not occur," said a senior army officer outside the imambargah.
Posted by: Fred 2004-10-03 |
