Terror bid foiled by police in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: A terror bid was foiled in the capital when police conducted a raid at a house located in the Chattha Bakhtawar area, Geo News reported. A large cache of arms and ammunition were recovered from the house and four people were arrested.

Ammunition was also recovered from a vehicle parked inside the house. 14 hand grenades, 14 rockets, 4 suicide jackets, 1 sub-machine gun and 109 poisonous injections were recovered during the raid.

The raid was conducted from information obtained during interrogation of a suspect on Friday night.

The house raided displayed a board with a name of a doctor while the number plate of the vehicle was from Peshawar. A student ID card from Commerce College was also recovered from the car.

One of the neighbours revealed that new tenants had arrived a few days prior to Eid while the doctor had vacated the house months earlier.

Police investigation continues and according to officials further details about the plots being hatched at this house will be revealed in the next few days.