Police Monday arrested six men who allegedly belong to an Islamic militant group suspected of a weekend car bombing that killed one person and injured six others, an official said. Officers made the arrests during a raid on a house in an eastern suburb where they also found grenades, pistols, timers and detonators, chief investigator Fayyaz Leghari said.
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Leghari said the suspects belong to Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen al-Alami, an outlawed Islamic militant group believed to be behind several recent attacks in Pakistan's commercial capital of 14 million. Saturday's blast killed a 30-year-old man and injured six people, including two children, outside a golf club staging an outdoor concert. Police ruled out a suicide attack, saying no one was in the car when it exploded.
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Leghari said the group is the prime suspect. "We suspect this group. The investigation continues, and we do not want to pinpoint anyone (conclusively)," Leghari said. The men were arrested after nine other members of the same group, already in custody, gave investigators information on their whereabouts, Leghari said. He declined to identify them.
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Leghari said investigators will compare photos of the arrested men with sketches of suspects wanted for other attacks in Karachi. Among the nine arrested last week was a man who allegedly sent suicide bombers on an attack that killed 12 Pakistanis outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi in 2002. The city has been the scene of militant attacks against the government and Westerners in apparent reprisals for President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's alliance with the U.S.-led campaign against terrorism in neighboring Afghanistan. On Friday, security forces seized a rocket launcher and mortar shells that police said were being stored by an unidentified militant group for an attack in Karachi.
| "That rocket launcher? It's a family heirloom, my grandad left it to me." |
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