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| Thursday, 22 January 2004 |
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Pakistani police foil 'major terrorist strike' KARACHI, Wednesday (Reuters) Pakistani police investigating a bombing last week outside an Anglican cathedral said on Wednesday they had foiled "a major terrorist strike" by seizing a huge stock of bomb-making material. More than 500 kg (1,100 lb) of chemicals used to make fertiliser bombs were found in an abandoned house in a Tuesday night raid in a poor neighbourhood in the port city of Karachi, city police chief Tariq Jameel told Reuters. The raid was conducted on information obtained from Shamim Ahmed, an Islamic militant arrested in connection with last Thursday's car bombing outside the city's Anglican cathedral that wounded 11 people, said provincial police chief Syed Kamal Shah. "We have averted a major terrorist strike," Shah said. Police describe Ahmed as the operations chief of the outlawed Sunni Muslim group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which has been blamed for a series of deadly attacks on Westerners and religious minorities in Pakistan. Jameel said the explosives found in the house were similar to those used in the church attack as well as a June 2002 bombing outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi that killed 12 people. No arrests had been made so far in connection with the seizure, he said. The blast outside the cathedral was the first attack on a Christian target in Pakistan in many months. The wounded included two Christians as well as six paramilitary soldiers and policemen who had arrived to investigate a blast caused by a small grenade moments earlier. |
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