September 28, 2008	Sunday	Ramazan 27, 1429

LANDI KOTAL, Sept 27: A self-styled organisation has claimed to have captured a suspected suicide bomber and seized explosives from his car in Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency on Saturday.

Activists of the Amr bil Maroof wa Nahi Anil Munkar (Promotion of virtue and prevention of vice) said they knew that the suspect would try to enter the Alamgodar area.

They said the bomber had been sent by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chief, Baitullah Mehsud, to target Eid congregation in Bar Qambarkhel, adding that his name was Omar.

Local people said that before the suspect was captured, the organisation’s activists clashed with workers of the Lashkar-i-Islam. One Lashkar man was killed and three others wounded.

The Amr activists claimed the bomber had confessed that an area in Mardan was his target.

Meanwhile, Khyber Rifles and the Khasadar Force destroyed a militants’ training camp during an operation in the Kam Shalman area of Landi Kotal.

Also on Saturday, one man was killed and three others were injured in a clash between two Afghan groups in the Torkham area.

A schoolboy was killed after he was struck by a speeding car in the Sheikh Malkhel area of Landi Kotal.