By IRNA,
Islamabad : Militants, who attacked worship places of a minority sect and killed over 90 people in Pakistan’s Lahore city, received training in North Waziristan, a senior police officer said Saturday.
Deputy Inspector General Police, Naeem Akram told a news conference that Pakistani Taliban planned attacks on worship places of Ahmadiya sect and the two arrested suspects have provided important information to the investigators.
“We will succeed to break the network as we have expanded investigation on the basis of extracted information,” he said, adding that all attackers and helpers have been identified.
Akram said the attackers came from Bannu, a main city near North Waziristan, and stayed at Raiwind, a small town near Lahore before they launched the attacks.
Raiwind is the center of a non-political religious group called ‘Tablighi Jamaat’ and the police officer said the attackers stayed at the center.
He said that the attackers visited the targeted places two times – once on May 21 and then on May 27th – along with the local facilitator. The attackers stayed at a mosque in Lahore city on the night of May 27.
Abdullah and Maaz, who carried out attacks at Model Town at 1:35 p.m. , have been arrested. Maaz is injured and under treatment, the police officer said. Abdullah is working for Taliban in Miranshsh, the center of North Waziristan, he said. He said that 27 people were killed at Model Town .
The other group was comprised on Mansoor and Darvesh who attacked worship place at Garhi Shahu. A total of 52 people were killed at Garhi Shahu.
The police officer said that 18 hand grenades, Klashnikove guns, ammunition and detonators were recovered.