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Summary
Lahore Police seized illegal weapons that included over 1500 kg explosive, two suicide jackets, 16 hand grenades and 1200 rounds from a shop at Mehran Block, Iqbal Town.SP Iqbal Town Ali Nasir Rizvi said the shop owner Akmal who had rented out the shop to Omer about three months ago informed the police that Omar had been disappearing for the last two days. Akmal further informed that he broke-open the lock of the shop and found huge quantity of explosive material there. To which, police rushed to the site and seized the explosive, suicide jackets, hand grenades and rounds. The SP said everything could be destroyed within the radius of 500 meters if the explosive exploded adding police arrested Akmal, the owner of shop and four others. Meanwhile, SP Investigation Shoaib Khurram said that the police have started investigation and are looking for Omar who is absconder.
