The Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday arrested three suspects linked to Sunday’s grenade attack in the Ganj Mandi area of Rawalpindi in which 25 people, including women and children, were injured.
According to the CTD spokesperson, on a tip-off, the investigation team arrested three persons during an intelligence based operation near Adiala Road.
Explosives, detonators, cell phones and other items were recovered from their possession, the spokesperson added.
He disclosed that the culprits were planning to carry out a terrorist attack on the Islamabad Stock Exchange. Further investigation is under way.
Sources said that earlier, according to the preliminary investigation, two unidentified terrorists on a motorcycle lobbed a hand grenade at a crowd in the Ganj Mandi area, injuring 25 people and causing panic among the citizens.
The CTD personnel obtained the footage of CCTV cameras installed in the buildings around the crime scene and analysed it to identify the culprits. The team also recorded statements of eyewitnesses and the injured.
The sources said that two blasts had taken place in Rawalpindi in the last 10 days after which search operations were being carried out to arrest the terrorists.
On December 4, a man was killed and seven others were injured in an improvised explosive device blast outside a grocery store in Rawalpindi. The CTD lodged an FIR of the case. Special police teams were set up to assist the CTD in nabbing the culprits.
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