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Terror bid foiled in KP

By Web Desk
November 23, 2017



PESHAWAR: Police have foiled a terror bid in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Charsadda district by recovering a huge quantity of arms and explosives buried at a graveyard.

A senior police official Muhammad Arif told media 40 kg explosives, seven mortar shells, five remote controlled receivers, 10 hand granades, 13 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and detonators were recovered from a graveyard in Shabqadar Tehseel of Charsadda.

Five suspected terrorists associated with the Bajaur Group of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were also arrested by the police, he said.

Muhammad Arif said the police were interrogating the suspects.