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| Police arrests nine accomplices of suicide bombers |
| 2010-01-14 |
| [Dawn] Police arrested nine accomplices of a group of suicide bombers in a raid at a hideout near the PAF range near Lachi town and seized 15 mortars and a pick up on Tuesday night, DawnNews reported. The district police officer, Dilawar Khan Bangash told Dawn that the police conducted a raid at a hideout of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan in the Mohsin Khan Banda area in the PAF range near Lachi town and arrested nine accomplices of suicide bombers all belonging to the Orakzai Agency. He informed that on November 3, 2009 two suicide bombers had died in the same area when the explosives laden jacket accidentally exploded. They were coming to Kohat on a motor cycle when the incident occurred. The investigations teams had found a mobile phone sim and a memory card at the scene which belonged to the would be suicide bombers. The damaged motor cycle was recovered after two days of the incident which had been buried by the accomplices of the suicide bombers. The local people had told the police that they had seen eight to nine suspicious people who were seeing off the motor cyclists in the evening. After investigations in the light of telephone numbers found in the memory card the police conducted a clandestine operation in Moshin Khan Banda and arrested nine terrorists along with a pickup on Tuesday night. Later acting on the tip provided by the terrorists during preliminary interrogation the bomb disposal squad recovered 15 mortars buried in the ground three kilometers away from the site of the November blast. The terrorists were shifted to unknown place for investigation by the police. Meanwhile the district administration lifted ban on the sale of urea fertilizer keeping in the needs of the farmers. The administration had banned sale of Urea which is used in the making of the improvised explosives devices by the terrorists during Muharram for security reasons. |
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