Karachi Police find suicide jacket along route of Youm e Ali procession

Karachi Police find suicide jacket along route of Youm e Ali procession and said that it might be made for carrying out an explosion in the main Youm-e-Ali procession.
DIG East Karachi Amir Farooqi said that police got reports that terrorists might target the Youm–Ali procession.
For that reason, for the past three-four days, the law enforcers had been carrying out combing operations. They conducted operations in different areas from where the procession would pass.

On Monday morning, the law enforcers searched the narrow streets in Lines Area. There they found a suicide jacket behind the Shahabuddin Market around 300 meters away from the route of the procession.

The DIG said that a ring attached to a string and the jacket might have exploded like a hand-grenade if someone pulled the string or the pin.

He said that terrorists made it ready to use but left abandoned outside a house in an isolated corner of a street due to the daily combing operations in the area by law enforcers.

Furthermore, he said that if they had not recovered it, they (terrorists) would have used it today.

Quoting a Bomb Disposal Squad’s report, the senior officer said that the suicide jacket weighed around six kilograms. It packed with explosives and steel nuts/bolts to create maximum impact.

Moreover, the DIG said that the police detained 20 persons from the area for questioning.

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