Volunteers carry the coffin of a person killed in a suicide bombing in Peshawar on January 30 – Photo: AP
According to Reuters news agency, Pakistani police cannot rule out the possibility that the bomber had internal support to evade security checks.
The January 30 bombing was the deadliest attack in 10 years on Peshawar, a city in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border.
“We found some important clues and based on these clues we made some major arrests,” Police Chief Peshawar Ijaz Khan told Reuters.
Ijaz Khan added: “We cannot rule out the possibility of internal assistance, but as the investigation is still ongoing I will not be able to share more details.”
The dead were mostly police, causing Pakistani security forces to suffer huge losses – Photo: AP
The bombing occurred as hundreds of worshipers gathered for noon prayers at a local mosque, which was built exclusively for police and their families, in a heavily guarded area. strict – Photo: REUTERS
Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said the suicide bomber sat in the front row of the prayer room. Moazzam provincial police chief Jah Ansari told Reuters that authorities had found the remains of the attacker. “We believe the attackers are not an organized group,” added Jah Ansari.
The explosion destroyed the upper floor of the mosque. Peshawar is located on the edge of the land of the Pashtun tribe, an area engulfed in violence over the past two decades – Photo: REUTERS