KARACHI: Three suspects were arrested during late night attacks by the Counter-Terrorism Department as investigation into the Friday terrorist attack on the Karachi Police Office picked up Sunday night.
The law enforcement agency shown raids in the Al-Asif Square area of Sohrab Goth on the outskirts of Karachi after geofencing data identified several facilitators of the terror attack that shocked the city, Geo News reported.
On Friday evening, three terrorists with suicide jackets entered the building of the KPO. In the hours-long operation that followed, police commandos and paramilitary soldiers cleared the building.
All the three terrorists were killed in the operation and four persons, including two policemen and a Sindh Rangers sub-inspector, included martyrdom in the nerve-racking operation that lasted for more than four hours.
At least 17 other people, including police and Rangers personnel, were also injured in the terror attack, which happened after a deadly suicide attack at a Peshawar Civil Lines mosque that left at least 85 dead.