Tag: Suspected

JAKARTA - At least 17 people were wounded in a suspected suicide bomb attack during Friday prayers at an mosque in a police compound in Indonesia's West Java province, police said.
"We suspect it was a suicide bombing," Indonesian police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam said.
"The blast occurred in Cirebon police headquarters compound during the beginning of Friday prayer," he told reporters.
Police said one man, the suspected bomber, was killed in the explosion which

KARACHI - A man suspected to be a bandit was shot down by Rangers near the Karimabad flyover, the Gulberg police said on Sunday. According to Rangers officials, 30-year-old Jahangir was looting citizens near the Karimabad railway track. Rangers personnel were passing through on motorcycles when they saw Jahangir looting a family. They ordered him to surrender. However, when he tried to escape from the scene, they opened fire on him. His body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

ADEN - Gunmen killed two soldiers in the southern Yemen town of Zinjibar on Monday in separate shootings which a local official blamed on Al Qaeda.
The attacks came in different neighbourhoods of Zinjibar, the capital of restive Abyan province, the official said on condition of anonymity. "They bear the hallmark of Al Qaeda, which often attacks soldiers," he added.
A hospital source confirmed the deaths of the two soldiers.
Militants of Al Qaeda have been increasingly

KARACHI - Various judicial magistrates remanded seven suspected militants until January 20 at the City Courts on Tuesday.
Tanveer Abbas Rizvi alias Kashif, Abrar Hussain Rizvi, Pervez Zaidi, Rifat Raza alias Jehangir, Hasnain Abbas alias Faisal, Sikander Rizvi and Ali Mehdi, alleged activists of the banned Sipah-e-Muhammad, were booked in 20 criminal cases, including 11 cases of targeted killings.
The prosecution said that the Special Investigation Unit had arrested the

KARACHI - Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) have arrested six suspected terrorists with links to an Iran-based militant organization, foiling their bid to form a terrorist wing of the outfit in Karachi, intelligence sources told Pakistan Today on Saturday.
The suspects are believed to be involved in sectarian killings of over 100 people. They have been shifted to an unidentified location and raids are being carried out to arrest their 13 accomplices.
The arrested men are

LAHORE: Lahore Police, to prevent terrorists' attack as suspected by the Interior Ministry, will deploy fresh troops at and around the route of main Zuljinah procession, especially at Karbala Gamay Shah where the procession concludes, on Muharram 10, police sources told Pakistan Today on Tuesday.
Police officials have declared 184 points as sensitive on the route of Zuljinah processions. Lahore Police has chalked out a 'comprehensive plan' in order to avoid any untoward incident

KARACHI: More than 300 suspects, including suspected Taliban leaders, were arrested in Manghopir, Karachi in a search operation on Tuesday, sources told Pakistan Today.
The crackdown was carried out after the Sindh government received information about possible terror attacks in Karachi during Muharram. On a tip-off, law enforcement agencies raided Manghopir and its surroundings areas.
Rangers and police personnel cordoned off the area and launched a search operation in

LAHORE: Indians and Afghans are in involved in recent terror attacks at different important places in different cities, said Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Aslam Tareen on Friday.
He was addressing a press conference at Police Lines Qila Gujjar Singh on the arrest of five alleged terrorists for involvement in the attack at the 15/ISI office on May 27, 2009. The attack claimed the lives of 10 civilians and 19 Federal Investigation Agency office bearers.