Summary Explosives and detonators were recovered from the building.
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – In a joint operation conducted by police and army personnel, a bomb making factory was busted in Peshawar on Friday.
Speaking to media, Peshawar CCPO Tahir Khan said two alleged terrorists were killed and five law enforcement personnel were injured during exchange of fire as the security forces raided a flour mill situated on Dalazak Road in Pakha Ghulam area.
The suspected terrorists were identified as commander Khalil-ur-Rehman alias Arif and Fazal Amin.
A suspect was also arrested during the operation
More than 600 detonators, explosives, material used for preparing suicide jackets, laptops, computer, mobile phones, videos and maps of sensitive installations were recovered from the building.
The raid was conducted few hours after multiple blasts and a gun attack killed more than 50 people and wounded hundreds in three Pakistani cities on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramazan.
More than 40 people were killed and over 300 were wounded when twin blasts tore through a market in Parachinar, capital of Kurram district.The first blast detonated as the market was crowded with shoppers preparing for the Eid ul-Fitr. A second blast took place when people rushed to the site to rescue the wounded.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called for security to be beefed up across the country as he condemned the attack, saying that no Muslim could ever imagine committing such a "horrific" act.
Pakistan has seen a dramatic improvement in security in the last two years, but groups such as the umbrella Pakistani Taliban and other extremist outfits still retain the ability to carry out attacks.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Friday’s attack.
The twin blasts in Parachinar followed a bombing earlier in the day in southwestern Quetta, capital of insurgency-wracked Balochistan province, that killed at least 13 people.
Pakistan has waged a long war with militancy, but security has markedly improved in the country since its deadliest-ever terror attack, an assault on a school in northwestern Peshawar in which Taliban gunmen left more than 150 people dead, most of them children.
(with inputs from AFP)
