Eyewitness identifies suspect in KU suicide attack

KARACHI:

A witness, during an identity parade in the judicial magistrate's court, has identified an accused involved in the suicide attack on Chinese nationals at University of Karachi (KU).

Extraordinary security arrangements were made in the city court on the occasion of the identity parade.

The eyewitness who was injured in the attack identified the accused Dad Bakhsh amid 10 dummy suspects. He said that the accused Dad Bakhsh had come to KU before the attack. Investigation officer Inspector Fayyaz Qadri said that the accused conducted the reconnaissance of the van carrying Chinese teachers before the suicide attack.

Special anti-terrorism court handed over the accused Dad Bakhsh to CTD on a three-day physical remand.

Dad Bakhsh was produced before Special Court No. 4 in Karachi Central Jail, Anti-Terrorism Complex.

Investigation officer Qadri said that CTD has registered another case against the arrested accused Dad Bakhsh. He said that on the identification of the accused, grenades and explosives were recovered from Gulshan-e-Iqbal Katchi Abadi. A case of recovery of explosives has been registered against the accused.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 14^th, 2022.