162 arrested in connection with Quetta blasts

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162 arrested in connection with Quetta blasts

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The death toll in twin suicide bomb blasts in Quetta on Wednesday reached 28.

08 September,2011 03:30 am

Police and FC in joint operation have arrested 162 Afghan nationals in connection with twin suicide bomb blasts in Quetta on Wednesday which killed 28 people.Police have also claimed to identify suicide bomber. According to police sources the suicide bomber was a 21-year-old Afghan national, identified as Ahmad Gul.The twin suicide bombs targetted the force responsible for this week capturing of senior Al-Qaeda operatives. The blasts killed 28 people and wounded many others Wednesday, police said. DIG FC Brig Farrukh Shazad was also reported injured.One attacker detonated his bomb-laden car outside the residence of the deputy chief of the Frontier Corps in Quetta city, before a second attacker blew himself up inside the house, said senior police official Hamid Shakil.Twenty-eight people have been killed and 32 were wounded, he said.It was a twin suicide attack. The house was badly damaged... some members of the family were severely injured. The deputy inspector general himself is injured, he said.Four members of the Frontier Corps were among the dead, including a senior officer, Shakil and a local security official said, and the wife of the deputy chief and two children were also killed.The residence of the deputy inspector general is close to other government buildings and official residencies in the city of Quetta.The Frontier Corps is Pakistan’s paramilitary force which took part in an operation on Monday to arrest a senior Al-Qaeda leader believed to have been responsible for planning attacks on the United States, Europe and Australia.Younis al-Mauritani was picked up in the suburbs of Quetta along with two other high-ranking operatives after US and Pakistani spy agencies joined forces, according to the Pakistan Army.The arrests signalled another blow to the global terror network, four months after Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by covert US forces, leading to a souring of ties between allies Islamabad and Washington.