Police arrest 33 suspects over Quetta cop killings

Published June 7, 2015
Police launched a crackdown against miscreants in the aftermath of killing of four policemen in Quetta's Pashtoonabad area. — Reuters/fileF
Police launched a crackdown against miscreants in the aftermath of killing of four policemen in Quetta's Pashtoonabad area. — Reuters/fileF
Balochistan Chief Minister, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch attends funeral prayer of police officials who were killed by 
unidentified armed assailants in Pashtoonabad area of Quetta on Saturday, June 06, 2015.   — PPI
Balochistan Chief Minister, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch attends funeral prayer of police officials who were killed by unidentified armed assailants in Pashtoonabad area of Quetta on Saturday, June 06, 2015. — PPI

QUETTA: Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested 33 suspects during various raids in Quetta's Pashtoonabad area.

A crackdown was launched in Balochistan's provincial capital city in the aftermath of killing of four policemen in the area on Saturday.

Read: Four policemen killed in Quetta gun attack

A senior police official told DawnNews that 33 suspects had been arrested in various raids so far, who are being interrogated by investiogators regarding the murder of four policemen in the area a day earlier.

He added that weapons and computers were also recovered from the possession of the arrested men.

Police did not share the identity of arrested suspects prior to completion of interrogation.

An FIR of the incident was also registered against unknown terrorists at Pashtoonabad police station under anti-terrorism act.

Chief Minister Balochistan Dr Malik Baloch had also condemned the incident and directed the police to immediately bring the perpetrators of terror act to book.

"We will not bow down before terrorists," Dr. Baloch said in a statement issued to press after the killing of policemen in Quetta.

Incidents of targeted violence frequently take place in the restive Balochistan province.

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