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| LeJ leader arrested in connection with Karachi church bombing |
| 2004-01-20 |
| Pakistani police said on Monday they had arrested a key Islamic militant in connection with last week’s bombing outside a church in Karachi and seized a huge quantity of explosives on the basis of information he gave them. Shamim Ahmed, the 25-year-old operations chief of the outlawed Sunni Muslim group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was arrested in an overnight raid in a middle-class neighbourhood of Karachi, city police chief Tariq Jameel told Reuters. The information he gave them prompted police to raid a house in the centre of the city, where they seized a large quantity of explosives and weapons, including hand grenades and letter bombs. Jameel said Ahmed was suspected of involvement in Thursday’s bombing outside Karachi’s Anglican cathedral in which 11 people were wounded. A police officer, who did not want to be identified, described Ahmed as a bomb-making expert. Two unidentified militants threw a grenade outside the Holy Trinity Cathedral on Thursday, then a car bomb exploded as security officials searched the site for clues. The government has announced a bounty of one million rupees ($17,000) for information leading to the arrest of the attackers, who are thought to be |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |