KARACHI, July 1: The banned militant group of Lashkar-i- Jhangvi has prepared women suicide bombers for attacking imambargahs in the city, a suspected mastermind of bomb blasts at two mosques told police.

SSP for Investigation Manzoor Mughal said here on Thursday that Gul Hasan had disclosed during interrogation that the banned group had brainwashed a few girls aged between 16 and 20 years.

They were persuaded to explode themselves in women's areas of imambargahs. They would be wearing burqas or school uniform, carrying handbags, he added.

He said Gul Hasan had prepared the suicide bombers who attacked the Hyderi mosque on May 7, and the imambargah and mosque Ali Raza on May 31, killing 47 people.

Mr Mughal said that security arrangements had been made and the committees of imambargahs and mosques taken into confidence on the issue. The women committee members of imambargahs had been asked to frisk entering women and inspect their belongings. Women police would also be posted at imambargahs and mosques, he added.