QUETTA, Sept 13: Fourteen Taliban suspects were arrested after a private hospital was raided here on Wednesday. Six of the arrested Taliban were injured who had beenbrought to the hospital from Afghanistan’s Helmand province on Wednesday morning, Rehmatullah Niazi, chief of the police’s Crime Investigation Department (CID), told this correspondent.

According to sources, the CID police raided the hospital in the Zarghoon Road area after it had been tipped off about the arrival of a group of injured Afghans.

Mr Niazi said the suspects were being interrogated by a CID team.

The sources said that all of the injured suspects had bullet wounds and were shifted to the Civil Hospital in Quetta under strict security. Sources said that the police had booked the suspects under the Foreigners Act.