QUETTA, Dec 28: Police have arrested another 10 suspects in connection with the Meezan Chowk bomb blast which had claimed 11 lives and other similar incidents in the provincial capital.
"We have taken 10 more suspects into custody for interrogation. One of them is a key accused," DIG Quetta Range, Pervez Rafi Bhatti, told Dawn on Tuesday, adding that 15 people had been detained in this connection.
He said that the key accused arrested by police was involved in providing explosives and weapons to saboteurs for carrying out the bomb blast and rocket attacks. "We got important information about the incidents which recently took place in Quetta," he said.
He said that earlier the police had arrested 35 people in connection with blasts in Quetta and after necessary interrogation 30 of them were released last week. However, he did not confirm the arrest of eight suspects allegedly belonging to the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA). He said that strict security measures had been adopted in Quetta and other areas to protect life and property of the people.
GRENADE ATTACK: A building and a number of official vehicles were damaged in a hand-grenade attack on a station of the Anti- Narcotics Force at the Sariab Road late Monday night. However, no ANF official was injured in the attack.
According to ANF sources, some terrorists hurled the grenade at the station at about midnight. The bomb exploded in the premises of the station, causing damage to a portion of the building and some seized vehicles parked in the premises.
The sources termed the attack an act of the drug mafia against whom the ANF had launched a drive and arrested three members of the gang on Monday.
