Police Lines blast: Facilitators involved in attack arrested

• Facilitators of Police Lines blast arrested
• Suspects belong to Afghanistan and Khyber
• Investigations going on with the detained person

PESHAWAR: Two accused in the Police Lines bomb blast in Peshawar have been arrested, reported BOL News on Friday.

Sources privy to the matter said that one of the arrested suspects belongs to Afghanistan while the other hails from Khyber.

According to the sources, one facilitator was arrested from Khyber district and the other from Hashtangri Peshawar, while the investigation of the facilitators is ongoing.

Sources say that the Afghan facilitator was arrested from a seminary in Peshawar district along with passport and other documents adding that the arrested facilitator was trying to escape abroad after the tragedy.

It was also said that the investigation team also got hold of the previous record of the attacker.

Notably, at least 93 people were killed and more than 150 people were hurt in the deadly suicide bombing inside a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines neighbourhood.

Security officials claimed that the suicide bomber was present in the front row during the prayers when he detonated himself, hurting numerous devoted people who were praying the Zohr.

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