RAWALPINDI One of the suicide bombers who struck Parade Lane mosque in Rawalpindi on Friday has been identified, leading to the arrest of his father from Dir.
A security source claimed that the bomber was identified from his face which was recovered intact from the scene of the attack. The evidence showed that the assailant was Safiullah, a resident of Dir.
His father owned him but told the investigators that his son had been missing after his association with a militant organisation long time ago, the source said.
Two of the four disfigured faces suspected to be that of the suicide attackers have been reconstructed through surgery while Safiullah's face was intact.
Four armed militants stormed the mosque located in military residential area during Friday prayers killing at least 40 worshippers including children and five senior military officers.
The source said the Toyota car used by the militants was a non-customs paid vehicle bearing a fake registration of Islamabad.
However, the original vehicle (ICT HK-508) has also been traced and impounded from the NWFP, the source said.
The car used by the militants was brought to Islamabad from Kohat via the motorway and handed over to the militants at a road crossing at Peshawar Mor.
The source said the investigators had also found one of the three digits inscribed on the tyres and bumper of the car and in the light of intelligence they suspected that there might be two more cars of the same brand and colour which might have been used in the same carnage.
The source said the two other cars could be inscribed with '1' and '2' digit as the recovered vehicle bore the digit of '3'.
The law enforcement agencies are hunting for the two cars which according to intelligence might be used by militants for terror strikes.
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