In what is being described as a major breakthrough in investigation into the Data Darbar blast, police claimed to have arrested four people in a raid on Friday on suspicion of their involvement in the terror attack.
A private news channel quoted its sources as saying that investigators – after identifying some people with the help of CCTV footage of the incident – carried out a raid at a tea stall in Garhi Shahu and took into custody four suspicious persons. They were shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation. Officials said one of the arrested suspects was the rickshaw driver who transported the suicide bomber to Data Darbar.
It is noteworthy that the death toll from Wednesday’s suicide blast outside the Data Darbar in Lahore jumped to 12 after another injured succumbed to his wounds early Friday morning.
Mudassar, a resident of Lahore’s Mochi Gate, breathed his last at a hospital where he was being treated.
At least 10 people were initially martyred and 25 other sustained wounds when a suicide bomber blew himself up near an Elite Force vehicle outside Gate-2 of the shrine.
The suicide bomber, whose age was around 15 years, blew himself up near the Elite Force police van stationed outside the shrine, according to the Punjab government spokesperson. agencies
