CCTV footage shows suicide bomber entering Qalandar's shrine

20 Feb, 2017

In a major development during probe into Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine attack, a new CCTV footage released on Sunday showed alleged suicide bomber entering the shrine. The video shows a nervous suspect first stands in queue but suddenly moves away from the scene after finding a policeman at the gate. He again appears walking alongside devotees and manages to sneak into shrine without going through body search.
Inspector General of Sindh Police, A D Khawaja said that he is 99 percent sure that the suspicious man detected in the video was a suicide bomber however his identity could not be confirmed yet.
Police have revealed that the attacker was a foreigner. During crackdown in the city, police have claimed arrest of terrorist's facilitator identified as Munir Jamali.
It has been revealed that Hafeez Brohi group from Shikarpur was involved in Sehwan terror blast.
An alleged facilitator of the suicide bomb at Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine was arrested from Khairpur.
The initial investigation report reveals that the suicide bomber belonged to Afghanistan while his name was changed for Jihad purpose. The suicide jacket was prepared in Shikarpur.
The facilitator further told that Afghan refugees in Pakistan are used as suicide bombers while terrorists from Pakistan are used in Afghanistan.
The investigation stated that Hafeez Brohi group left Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) to join Daesh. The group was found involved in Shikarpur attacks and blast at Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters. Sources told that terrorists who carried out Shikapur attacks could not be added in red book yet while no head money was placed on them.

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