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| Four terror suspects arrested, mosque attack foiled |
| 2007-07-16 |
| Lahore police arrested four suspected terrorists and foiled an attack on a mosque late Sunday, while recovering a large quantity of illegal weapons from their custody. Two motorcyclists — Javed and his gunman Ashfaq — of Mujahid Squad Ravi Road Police were on a routine patrol when they observed four suspicious people travelling in a car. . They signalled the car to stop, but instead of stopping, the driver tried to escape from the patrolmen, following which the officials gave chase to the vehicle and radioed for backup at police emergency number 15. Responding to the call for backup, four policemen — Muhammad Ashraf, Zafar, Ramzan and Maqsood — of Tiger Squad Ravi Road and a mobile vehicle reached the spot and pursued the suspected vehicle. The police teams eventually managed to cordon the vehicle near Bhatti Chowk at Link Road and arrested all four passengers. Police recovered two 8mm rifles, rifle-calibre 0.444, 250 cartridges and thousands of bullets from the car. The accused were then handed over to the Ravi Road Police station, where a case has been registered against them. Sources told Daily Times that the suspects had confessed to planning a terrorist attack on a mosque during preliminary interrogations. They also told police that four other accomplices were surveying a different area of the city. Further, the sources revealed that the arrested men are Mehram Ali, Muhammad Irfan, Haidar and an unidentified suspect. They said Haider and the unidentified man had been transferred to an unknown location and Ali and Irfan were from Shiekhupura. When contacted, Capital City Police Officer Malik Muhammad Iqbal said the police had arrested four suspects and recovered a large quantity of illegal weapons from their possession. He said further investigations were underway and it was too early to say the accused were terrorists. Meanwhile, it was also learnt that emergency number 15 received a call from house No 35 in Allama Iqbal Town’s Jahanzaib Block. The caller informed the police that four suspicious people were travelling in a car with registration number LRR-1999 in the area. Mobile police responded to the call, but the suspects managed to escape. |
| Posted by:Fred |