Investigators make headway in attack on foreigners in Karachi
Pakistan
The CTD officials said they had found clue to the motorcycle used by the attackers
KARACHI (Dunya News) – The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) claims to have find clues in the suicide attack on the vehicle of foreigners in Mansehra Colony of Landhi area.
Two passersby were killed while five Japanese nationals escaped unhurt in the suicide attack on the vehicle they were travelling by on April 19.
The CTD officials said they had found clue to the motorcycle used by the attackers. The motorcycle was sold in 2020 on instalments by a showroom in Mehran Town, Korangi. A department’s team has recorded the statements of the showroom owner.
The showroom owner informed the CTD officials that the 2018-make motorcycle was purchased by Saddam Hussain Thaheem.
He said Saddam came to the showroom along with his father Qurban Ali. The Rs45,000 bike was sold on Rs3,000 per month instalment. The buyer paid only three instalment and then disappeared, he added.
The CTD has started a search for the buyer of the bike.
