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| 3 Suspects In School Attack Explode... |
| 2002-08-08 |
| Three persons, whom officials suspected could be involved in the Murree terrorist attack, blew themselves up with grenades in an Azad Jammu and Kashmir village on Tuesday after being intercepted by the locals and the police because of their "suspicious movements." The three persons, who were stated to be in late twenties or early thirties, were walking on the road near a small village, Khapadar, located along the River Jhelum. Khapadar faces the town of Phagwari in Murree hills on the other side of the river. A suspension bridge over the river links the two sides with each other. The village has a small police post, where four constables and a head constable are posted. So three suspicious characters in the area of the attack, trying to find their way. Locals comes up and say something on the order of "Y'ain't from around these here parts, are yew?"... According to DIG, Muzafarabad police, Tahir Qayyum, the villagers of Khabader saw the three in suspicious condition and surrounded them. The villagers quoted the terrorists as saying that they had hand-grenades with them and that they had already accomplished an operation in Murree Christian School (MCS) and if they were hindered they will kill them also. The villagers approached a nearby police checkpoint and narrowed their circle around the suspects. On sensing the danger, the three fastened the grenades on their bodies and blew themselves up, the DIG said. Two of them were swept away by the river while the body of the third was recovered by a local. That was pretty dramatic. They really didn't want to talk to the coppers. And Muzafarabad is where the jihadi training camps are. Y'don't suppose... The body of the third suspect was brought to Dhirkot hospital at 9pm and a source at the hospital told this correspondent that the clean-shaven man was wearing a shirt, tracksuit pyjamas and joggers, but his face had been badly mutilated. Senior police officials were of the view that these men could have connection with the terrorist attack on the Christian school in Murree, but avoided giving any statement without completing the investigations. They said they did, but this being Pakland they coulda been lying. Maybe they were just depressed, and decided to depart this vale of tears, and were just out looking for a good place to do it... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |