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Would-be suicide bomber held in Quetta: CTD

report in Dawn, Feb 19, 2023
QUETTA: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the police has arrested a woman suspected of planning to carry out a suicide attack and recovered her jacket.

The suspected was arrested near a park in Quetta’s Satellite Town when teams of CTD and intelligence agencies conducted an operation in the area against the outlawed Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), a CTD spokesperson said.

He added the raid came after intelligence agencies received a tip-off that the suspected attacker, named Mahbal, wife of Bebagar alias Nadeem, intended to carry out a signature suicide attack on some key installation and law enforcement agencies in the provincial capital.

The woman was arrested with a bag containing the suicide jacket weighing four to five kilograms, the spokesperson said.
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