- Title: PAKISTAN: Suspected teenage would-be suicide bomber arrested in Peshawar
- Date: 21st November 2012
- Summary: SHOTLIST: PESHAWAR , PAKISTAN (NOVEMBER 20, 2012) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) BOMB DISPOSAL PERSONNEL STANDING BESIDE POLICE ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER (APC) SUSPECTED SUICIDE BOMBER WEARING JACKET LYING FACE DOWN ON THE GROUND BOMB DISPOSAL SQUAD OFFICIAL HELPING COLLEAGUE INTO BOMB-DEFUSING JACKET VARIOUS OF BOMB DISPOSAL SQUAD OFFICIAL TRYING TO DIFFUSE JACKET WORN BY SUSPECTED SUICIDE BOMBER LYING ON THE GROUND SECURITY STAFF AT SITE BOMB DISPOSAL SQUAD OFFICIAL REMOVING DIFFUSED JACKET FROM SUSPECTED SUICIDE BOMBER SUICIDE BOMBER LYING ON THE GROUND WITHOUT HIS JACKET SUSPECTED SUICIDE BOMBER WALKING TOWARDS POLICE/ POLICE FRISKING THE BOY AND ESCORTING HIM AWAY
- Embargoed: 6th December 2012 12:00
- Keywords:
- Location: Pakistan
- Country: Pakistan
- Topics: Crime
- Reuters ID: LVAB6OW5M60878P2WGQPK6X23VTI
- Story Text: Police in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday (November 20) foiled a possible bid of terrorism by arresting two people, including a suspected suicide attacker, in the outskirts of the city.
According to initial reports, a patrolling police squad tried to stop a motorbike at a check post during a routine checkup. A young boy riding pillion on the bike, jumped off the vehicle and tried to detonate a suicide vest strapped around him.
A police official on site told reporters that, while trying to denote his jacket, the boy dropped the detonator in panic and then tried to run away.
However, the detonator was picked up by the police who called to him to stop or they would blow him up.
Police said they arrested the man riding the bike and the boy was asked to sit on the ground with his hands up. He was later asked to lie down on the ground until bomb disposal squads and army experts arrived on the scene to diffuse the explosive-laden jacket.
Shafqat Malik, additional inspector general of police and head of the bomb disposal unit, told Reuters his unit diffused the suicide jacket without killing the bomber who is about 13 years old.
He said "both the bomber and the sponsor have been arrested alive."
Malik said the jacket contained eight kilograms of explosives.
The arrested were taken to an unknown location for further investigations. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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