Truck loaded with ammunition seized in Sindh

Truck loaded with ammunition seized in Sindh
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Summary A truck loaded with huge cache of ammunition was seized near Ghotki.

 

SUKKUR: Pakistan’s Excise Department on Thursday foiled a bid to smuggle huge cache of ammunitions from Peshawar to Karachi and arrested two culprits near Ghotki.


According to local police, the excise police on Thursday conducted a raid on National Highway near Sindh-Punjab border and seized a truck containing huge amount of explosive material, detonators, suicide jackets, other ammunition and drugs.


According to initial investigation, the two culprits, identified as Riaz and Ghulam Hyder arrested from the truck belonged to South Waziristan and they were shifting the explosives to someone in Karachi.


The police shifted the culprits to an undisclosed location for further investigation while the bomb disposal squad was summoned at the spot.
 

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