Probing traces: Police trust bombers in Warsak wanted prolonged siege

Pakistani Christian walks past a shop-worn residence in a Christian Colony on a hinterland of Peshawar on Sep 3, 2016, a day after confidence army killed 4 self-murder bombers.  PHOTO: AFP

Pakistani Christian walks past a shop-worn residence in a Christian Colony on a hinterland of Peshawar on Sep 3, 2016, a day after confidence army killed 4 self-murder bombers. PHOTO: AFP

SHABQADAR / PESHAWAR: The military trust a 4 self-murder bombers who pounded Christian cluster in Warsak wanted a prolonged and bloody encircle as they were carrying a vast apportion of arms and ammunition besides wearing self-murder vests.

While articulate to The Express Tribune, a military central pronounced a self-murder enemy were armed to a teeth as 3 AK-47 rifles and palm grenades, along with physique tools of a bombers, were found during a site of a attack. “Two skulls [said to be of a attackers] also remained intact.”

The central combined a enemy were well-equipped. “They were 4 out of that 3 had AK-47s and one had a pistol, besides palm grenades and other ammunition,” he said. “All of them were wearing absolute self-murder vests and were carrying with them H2O bottles too that suggests they wanted a prolonged encircle and designed to reason [the locals] hostage, though we have not found any edibles.”

They were stealing in a trees nearby Christian cluster and entered when a gates were non-stop early in a morning, he said. “The guards were scheming for a morning prayers. Both a polite guards, hired by Wapda for a confidence of a colony, were harmed though they retaliated and kept a terrorists intent compartment a military arrived.”

He combined a terrorists had sealed a categorical embankment from inside so a military had to stand a wall to open it. “One of a self-murder bombers had already blown himself before a military arrived –three of them were killed after a sell of fire.”

One of a self-murder bombers is pronounced to have entered a residence and took a inhabitants hostage, though did not kill them. “He left when military entered a cluster and blew himself adult in a same house, ensuing in a fall of a structure.”

“We have not seen H2O reserve with self-murder bombers before. It means they wanted a prolonged a bloody drama,” he said. “Locking of a embankment of a walled cluster from inside was a pointer they were not awaiting any resistance.” On a other hand, 4 people suspected to have facilitated a Christian colony, Warsak conflict were arrested from Michni, a area that borders Mohmand and Peshawar.

A military official, who was partial of a operation, has reliable a detain of a suspected facilitators concerned in a conflict on Christian colony.

He pronounced a suspected persons were arrested on Friday from Kas Korona, situated on a limit of Mohmand and Peshawar and is around a kilometre during a north-east of Warsak.

Published in The Express Tribune, Sep 4th, 2016.

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