Pakistani police say they foiled a planned attack on a Shi'ite Muslim procession with cyanide and suicide bombs. Pakistani police say they had averted a disaster with the arrest of five militants planning to attack the processions. The arrests in the southern city of Karachi came as minority Shi'ite Muslims across Pakistan gathered for religious commemorations that have in recent years drawn attacks from Sunni Muslim militants.
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Sindh Police Inspector General (IG) Azhar Ali Farooqui told a press conference that they had arrested the militants after a brief encounter on a tip-off. The five militants, one of whom was preparing to become a suicide bomber, belonged to different Sunni Muslim militant groups - Jaish-e-Muhammad, Harkatul Mujahideen and Harkat-e-Jihad-e-Islami.
Meaning they all belonged to al-Qaeda...
The police also found six kilogrammes (kg) of explosives, ammunition, two kg of ball bearings and one kg of nails. Police also seized 500 gram of cyanide that Farooqui said was going to be used to poison drinks handed out to people taking part in the processions, Reuters reported. “In the preliminary interrogation, the militants have confessed to planning three kind of attacks to disrupt peace in Karachi - attacking Shia processions with suicide bombings and hand grenades, targeting army installations and adding cyanide in Sabeels for Muharram processions,” the IG said.
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