KARACHI, May 13: Two Al Qaeda suspects, who were arrested with 626 kilograms of explosive material, were again given into police custody on Tuesday till April 16 by two judicial magistrates.

This was the third remand of the suspects — Mohammed Anver alias Jabir and Habibullah alias Imran — who were booked at two police stations for possessing illegal arms and ammunition and explosive material.

The police first produced the two before the judicial magistrate, Malir, Farid Anver Kazi, in the case of Gulzar-i- Hijri police and then in the court of the judicial magistrate, East, Basheer Channa, in the case of the Korangi Industrial Area police.

The investigation wing of the Karachi police brought the two suspects, allegedly trained in Afghanistan, to the courts with their faces covered with cloth in an armoured personnel carrier amid extra-ordinary security arrangements.

The Al Qaeda activists, who were allegedly planning to launch a series of attacks on the US interests in the city, were booked in three FIRs (124, 125 and 126) by the Gulzar-i-Hijri police after the Rangers reportedly seized from them 143 kilogram explosives, 199 electronic detonators, 50 simple detonators, one roll of detonator card, two sub-machine guns, two pistols, 10 magazines of SMG, and around 1,000 live rounds. The Suzuki pick-up (KA-9818), loaded with the arms cache, was also impounded.

The case, registered with the Korangi Industrial Area police, also pertained to the possession of illegal arms and ammunition.