Friday 6 March 2009

Two suspects accused of Liberty ambush held

LAHORE: Crime Investigation Agency claimed capturing as many as five suspects including two persons, accused of having involvement in Sri Lankan team assault, from Lahore and other cities of Punjab, Geo News reported on Wednesday.

The investigation staff of the Punjab Police arrested them amid a raid on a building in the Saddar area, sources said.

The sources said the personnel of the Joint Interrogation Team of the Punjab Police arrived in Karachi on Wednesday morning, as they had information regarding the presence of suspects involved in the Lahore attack.

The team left for Lahore later in the day. Salman Aslam adds from Lahore, “The recovery of a cellphone SIM from a bag, abandoned by the terrorists and seized by the police from the crime scene, has led to the arrest of its owner and his alleged accomplice from Kot Samaba, a town in Rahim Yar Khan, according to the police sources.”

The police have also taken into custody 24 other suspects, stated to be members of various banned outfits, from different parts of the city. The sources said the suspected terrorists — Babar Shahzad and teenager Dilawar Hussain — have been shifted to Lahore under tight security.

The main suspect is in his early 20s and he had been working as a guard at a cellphone company tower in Lahore until a few months ago. However, currently he is an employee of a flourmill. Except for the cellphone, nothing has been recovered from them, the sources said.

They said despite detaining and questioning over four-dozen people, The Lahore police are yet to make any headway in the probe into the Liberty attack. They said the sketches of the attackers have been made in the light of the eyewitnesses’ accounts, including rickshaw and car drivers.

Three cars and a rickshaw used by the terrorists during the ambush have also been impounded. The case has been registered against 14 to 15 unidentified armed men. Explosives, suicide jackets, bullets asnd hand-grenades, seized from separate places, have been mentioned in the FIR.

According to sources, suspects had been residing in Lahore for some days and were being assisted from various cities of the province including Lahore.

Investigation team narrowed search operations monitoring selective suspected places following the information they sought from various secrets sources and launched several raids. As a result, five suspects were nabbed on Wednesday, sources added.

Also, sources confirmed involvement of Indian spy agency RAW in Lahore attacks as per preliminary investigation.

It is likely that agencies will make available investigative report on Lahore attack within 18 hours, sources predicted.

Source Jang.com.pk

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