Five witnesses identify Safoora bus attackers

KARACHI: Five witnesses in a local court identified two accused Tahir Hussain and Saad Aziz in the attack on an Ismaili community busy which claimed 45 lives.
The witnesses included two women, a man, a child and the person who drove the bus to the hospital.

According to an earlier report Tahir Hussain alias Sain has told the interrogation team that IS terrorist organisation was behind the bus attack which took place on March 31.

Tahir informed the interrogation team that Abdullah bin Yousaf who he claimed is the IS chief for Karachi and Punjab had issued directives for the attack. Yousaf is hiding wither in Afghanistan’s Helmand provice or Syria, Tahir said.

Another claimed made by Tahir is that Saad Aziz carried out wall chalking for Daish an acronym for IS throughout Karachi.

Five suspects – Saad Aziz, Muhammad Azhar Ishrat, Haafiz Nasir, Tahir Hussain Minhas and Asadur Rehman – were arrested by the Sindh Police for their alleged involvement in the Safoora bus attack.

The suspects, besides killing at least 45 people of Ismaili community, are also allegedly involved in murder of T2F director Sabeen Mahmud, firing on US academic living in Karachi Debra Lobo in area of Ferozabad police station, magnet-fitted bomb attacks on Naval officers in Karachi, suicidal attack on Brig Basit of Rangers, grenade attacks on private schools in Nazimabad and North Nazimabad, bomb blast and target killing of Bohri community in Arambagh, North Nazimabad, Bahadurabad and in Hyderabad, bomb attacks on police mobile vans and killings of police personnel at various locations in the Sindh capital.

The weapons recovered from the suspects include three Kalashnikovs, seven 9mm pistols, five grenades, five laptop computers, seven pieces of explosive materials, and extremist militant literature.