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2nd Karachi bomb suspect nabbed
Pakistani police have arrested a second suspect in a suicide car bombing which killed 14 people, 11 of them French.Police say the accused, identified as Rizwan, alias Mohammad, Bashir, has confessed to a role in the attack in Karachi last May. They say he drove in the vehicle used in the bombing, but got out a few yards before the Sheraton hotel outside which it blew up. Police are holding another man who they say planted the explosives. Asif Zaheer was arrested in December. Police say he gave them Mohammad Bashir's name. Pakistani truncheons at work Bashir is said to have links with Harkat-ul Mujahideen, an outlawed militant group active in Afghanistan during and after the Soviet invasion. Police are due to formally charge Zaheer in an anti-terrorism court next week. Three Pakistanis were also killed when an unidentified suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden Volkswagen Beetle into a bus that regularly picked up French engineers outside the Sheraton hotel. The Frenchmen who died were naval technicians working with Pakistani colleagues in building a French-designed submarine for the Pakistani navy. Zaheer is alleged to have told interrogators that he and his partners mistakenly thought the bus was full of Americans. If it had been full of Americans, would the Pak police have been working so hard to nab these guys? Posted by: Steve 2003-01-15 |
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