Weapons found in fertiliser sack left behind fleeing suspect

Karachi 

Pakistan Coast Guards officials seized a huge cache of weapons during a raid in a slum area near the Super Highway on Friday. 

The spokesman for the PCG said that after receiving credible intelligence about a bid to smuggle arms and ammunition into Karachi through the Super Highway, special mobile teams were constituted for snap checking.

During the process, PCG officials spotted a suspected vehicle and signalled its driver to pull over.

The driver however tried to speed away. When he felt the officials were closing in on him, he abandoned his vehicle and a fertiliser sack by the roadside and escaped, taking advantage of heavy traffic flow, darkness and dense vegetation in the area.

The officials found seven 30-bore pistols, two 12-bore repeaters and 300 rounds of different calibers in the sack. 

They suspected that the consignment of arms and ammunition was likely to be used in terrorist activities in Karachi.