Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Pakistan: Police claim recovering 3 boys who were to become suicide bombers

The police recovered three boys who were being shifted to North Waziristan to be recruited and trained as suicide bombers, sources said on Wednesday. The sources said that acting on a tip-off the police barricaded the Bannu-Dera Ismail Khan road near Muslim Bagh and stopped a passenger van. Following search, the police found and recovered 11-year old Rehan, Mukhtiar (14) and Shah Husssain (15) along with one Yahya Khan. All of them belonged to South Waziristan Agency but were residing in Sultan and Awan colonies in Karachi. Initially, they told the police that they were heading to Miranshah to attend a wedding party but during interrogation they confessed that they were going to become suicide bombers. The police registered the case and started its investigations. The sources said Yahya Khan was facilitating the shifting of the boys to North Waziristan to make them suicide bombers.

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