Unearthed total community, relations of bombers chargeable for Peshawar mosque blast: Authorities

Pakistani investigation authorities on Sunday claimed to have unearthed all the community and relations of the bombers chargeable for the lethal suicide assault on a crowded Shia mosque in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that killed 63 individuals and wounded 200 others, a senior official stated.

A suicide bomber, belonging to the ISIS-Khorasan, blew himself up inside a mosque in Qissa Khwani bazaar in Peshawar, capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, in one of many deadliest assaults within the restive area, bordering Afghanistan.

Advisor to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister on Information Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, together with Peshawar City Police Chief Ijaz Khan instructed reporters {that a} rickshaw driver and facilitator have been traced whereas the police investigators are very near the household of the bombers as their identification course of has been accomplished.

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The growth got here a day after Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed vowed to arrest the masterminds behind the lethal suicide assault.

FIR has been registered towards the unknown accused in Khan Raziq Police Station and forwarded to Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) police probing the blast.

It is claimed that CTD has arrested two suspects within the case and picked up the required information from the location.

According to the investigation crew, they discovered seven bullet shells and maintained that the bomber used a 9 mm pistol earlier than blowing himself up.

The sketches of the bombers and two facilitators who’ve come on a Tri wheeler on the blast web site have been accomplished.

The metropolis police chief, Ijaz khan, didn’t agree with the assertions of the folks that police safety guards didn’t play their position correctly.

However, he agreed there could also be some lapses as polio drives and festivals for minority communities had been additionally underway within the metropolis.

The police had been totally alert. The Peshawar metropolis police chief stated that they had details about the presence of two terrorists within the metropolis.

He additional stated that seven lifeless our bodies couldn’t be recognized whereas police additionally discovered two damaged legs which, are believed to be of the bombers and have been despatched to the forensics for DNA investigation.

The final main terrorist assault was additionally carried out in Peshawar, a mosque in Dir Colony on October 27, 2020, killing eight college students and injuring round 120 injured as a timed gadget went off on the premises, the place numerous seminarians had been attending a category.

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