Caught in time: Police find 13kg bomb on Khalid bin Waleed Road
Alleged thief, doctor and rickshaw driver shot dead.
The bomb weighing 13 kilogrammes had been planted near a mosque on Khalid bin Waleed Road. PHOTO: PPI/FILE
KARACHI:
Ferozabad police foiled a terrorist bid when they defused a bomb weighing 13 kilogrammes planted near a mosque on Khalid bin Waleed Road on Wednesday.
Crime Investigation Department SP Raja Umer Khattab said the mosque belonged to the Ahle-Hadith sect. Some alleged militants wanted to carry out an attack similar to the one on Jamiah Sataria in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block 6 on March 31, he added.
The residents of PECHS found a suspicious-looking bag on the empty plot and alerted the local police, said Khattab, adding that the bomb disposal squad and law enforcers reached the site immediately and defused the bomb.
"It could have been a huge attack if the terrorists had been successful," said Khattab. "There would have been a massive disaster."
Meanwhile, SITE area police allegedly killed a street criminal during an encounter near Faqeera Goth on Wednesday. The police said that head constable Mir Muhammad also sustained injuries during the encounter. The alleged criminal's accomplices managed, however, to flee.
"The victim was later identified as Abdul Qayyum Mehsud, a resident of Sohrab Goth," said a police official, adding that the law enforcers also found Rs3,000 stolen cash from his possession. The body was moved to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an autopsy.
Separately, a rickshaw driver was shot dead near Jumman Shah shrine. Soldier Bazaar police said the victim was identified as Taj Muhammad, 35, a resident of Sohrab Goth.
In Kaneez Fatima Society, Surjani Town police found a trussed-up body of a young man, whose identity has yet to be ascertained.
A general physician was also shot dead at Darul Sehat Hospital on Wednesday. The duty officer of Sharae Faisal police station said that the victim, Dr Haider Raza, 50, was going home in his car when unidentified men shot him thrice and escaped. The victim was the emergency incharge at the hospital and a professor at the college. Majlis-e-Wahadatul Muslimeen gave a statement that the victim belonged to the Shia community.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 10th, 2014.
Ferozabad police foiled a terrorist bid when they defused a bomb weighing 13 kilogrammes planted near a mosque on Khalid bin Waleed Road on Wednesday.
Crime Investigation Department SP Raja Umer Khattab said the mosque belonged to the Ahle-Hadith sect. Some alleged militants wanted to carry out an attack similar to the one on Jamiah Sataria in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block 6 on March 31, he added.
The residents of PECHS found a suspicious-looking bag on the empty plot and alerted the local police, said Khattab, adding that the bomb disposal squad and law enforcers reached the site immediately and defused the bomb.
"It could have been a huge attack if the terrorists had been successful," said Khattab. "There would have been a massive disaster."
Meanwhile, SITE area police allegedly killed a street criminal during an encounter near Faqeera Goth on Wednesday. The police said that head constable Mir Muhammad also sustained injuries during the encounter. The alleged criminal's accomplices managed, however, to flee.
"The victim was later identified as Abdul Qayyum Mehsud, a resident of Sohrab Goth," said a police official, adding that the law enforcers also found Rs3,000 stolen cash from his possession. The body was moved to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an autopsy.
Separately, a rickshaw driver was shot dead near Jumman Shah shrine. Soldier Bazaar police said the victim was identified as Taj Muhammad, 35, a resident of Sohrab Goth.
In Kaneez Fatima Society, Surjani Town police found a trussed-up body of a young man, whose identity has yet to be ascertained.
A general physician was also shot dead at Darul Sehat Hospital on Wednesday. The duty officer of Sharae Faisal police station said that the victim, Dr Haider Raza, 50, was going home in his car when unidentified men shot him thrice and escaped. The victim was the emergency incharge at the hospital and a professor at the college. Majlis-e-Wahadatul Muslimeen gave a statement that the victim belonged to the Shia community.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 10th, 2014.