In raids it conducted in various parts of the city on Tuesday, police detained three suspects for interrogation in connection with Monday’s abortive explosion of a chemical device outside the US consulted general here, sources in Sindh police told Daily Times on Tuesday. Police refused to identify the detained persons, during raids conducted by the Anti-Violence Crime Cell (AVCC), saying a disclosure would affect the process of interrogation. But it said the suspects provided clues that could lead to the arrest of the men who parked the Suzuki Hiroof with the explosive device outside the gate of the US consulate general. Police suspect the culprits to be members of some banned religious outfit.
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It said it had not installed secret cameras at the US consulate general or in nearby areas. It added the building itself had such cameras, which recorded 14 seconds of the parking of the Hiroof. But the number of the Suzuki Alto car in which the man doing the parking managed to escape was not recorded. Police said the laboratory report of the chemical liquid filled in the Hiroof’s tank installed in place of the vehicle’s rear seat was expected to be released within the next 48 hours. |