Officials said that a man was travelling from Bara in Khyber Agency to Peshawar on his motorbike on Tuesday evening when a boy of 12-13 years of age hailed him for a lift into the city. As they neared the suburban area of Sarband, they were stopped at a checkpost for routine check up. As they frisked the men, police discovered that one of them was wearing a suicide vest.
ASI Mushtaq of the Sarband police station said that they immediately arrested the driver of the motorcycle and had surrounded the passenger.
“We arrested the man driving the bike and the other man was asked to sit on ground in a hands up position but he is now lying on the ground probably because of the fear,” he said. Mushtaq added that bomb disposal squad reached the area and they diffused the vest.
Express News correspondent Jahangir Shahzad added that when they two were stopped, the passenger yelled out to nearby security forces, warning them of approaching him since he had explosives strapped to him. At this point, the driver of the motorcycle threw up his hands saying that it was not his fault and the passenger had been made a hostage.
Police then arrested the driver, and pinned down the passenger. Bomb disposal squad managed to successfully remove and diffuse the vest after toiling for an hour. Officials said that the jacket contained five to six kilogrammes of explosives along with at least two kilogrammes of ball bearings strategically placed in the anterior and posterior regions of the jacket.
Both suspects have been moved undisclosed locations.
Shahzad, added that the bomber seemed to be drugged and when media teams reached the spot, they found the boy lying still on the ground.
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He is a little child, a mother's son. I can't imagine how afraid he must be, he is a human being after all. Who does this to little children- drugs them, brainwashes them, plays with their mind, robs them of their childhood, forces suicide vests upon them? Can these people really be human? I want my country, my beautiful Pakistan back and I want the children of this country to be safe, to be free and most importantly to be allowed to be just children.
@Super Star: "The well nourished children of Pakistan seem to be doing a good job"
The bomb disposal techie wasn't too shabby either, but trust the cross-border troll/trollette to ignore that.
By the way, good Job by guys who put their lives on the line. We need more of them.
Pakistan Zindabad!!
We need a system where everyone is registered and can be tracked. There are too many "unknown" people in the country and that makes everyone a suspect.
Start finger printing everyone - make it a mandatory step and have their home/cave logged in system and drop a bomb on their homes if they kill innocent people.
"Bomber was 12-13 years of age who claimed that he was made a hostage and explosives were forcefully strapped onto him."!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Imran Khan thinks he can negotiate with a suicide bomber.
Hats off to the techie!!!!
If after nabbing the suicide bomber the cops cannot work backwards and crack the ring leaders of this menace better they be paid salaries and asked to remain at home.
What a stupid kind of jihad this is!! Using children as suicide bomber!! And then hiding in caves and using civilians as shields! These people do not even deserve to be called Muslims. If they consider themselves as Mard e Momin, then fight the battle in the battle fields instead of hiding like Rats in Caves. This kind of Jihad is not allowed especially against Muslims who have nothing to do with WOT. These people are worse than the Israeli who bomb Muslims. (Hope ET will publish my comment)
Little kids .. so sad. I think when they started from Rawalpindi, they were told to go east, but they missed the direction and went west, and got caught by the same people. Dont worry, you will be free very soon, as no one has been punished here in last 10 years. In fact, our agencies have opened the prison doors last week for people to go back. Happy journey.
This is not developing story, this sensationalizing story
The well nourished children of Pakistan seem to be doing a good job
Salute to brave policemen!
We need to eliminate the root cause of this problem. Don't let gulf countries send in the money to create terrorism in our country in the name of religion. Please be sincere to your country and its people.