Pakistan says arrested suspect in police school attack is Afghan national

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(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-03-31 07:52

LAHORE, Pakistan -- A suspect arrested in the police school attack in Pakistan's Lahore city is a Afghan national, said Advisor on Prime Minister's Interior Rehman Malik on Monday evening.

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers arrest a suspected militant near the site of a police training center in Lahore. At least 25 people were killed and 90 others injured when unidentified gunmen attacked a police training school in eastern Pakistan city of Lahore on Monday, police said. [Xinhua]

After interrogations, one arrested man belongs to the eastern Paktika province of Afghanistan and three other suspects have been taken into custody for questioning, Malik told a press conference in Lahore.

A bearded man was arrested when he was seen heading to military helicopters outside the police training school, on which unidentified gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenades made a violent attack.

The police recovered two hand grenades from the suspect.

Malik confirmed that four terrorists have been killed and the others have been arrested, but he did not give exact figure of the gunmen as well as the figure of casualties in the attack.

Rescuers carry an injured man out of the site where an attack occurred in Lahore, Pakistan, on March 30, 2009. [Xinhua]

There is still conflicting reports on the casualties. Earlier reports said at least 25 people were killed and 90 others injured when the masked gunmen attacked the police.

Malik said that the attack was planned in northwestern Pakistan' s South Waziristan tribal region, adding that militants in tribal areas receive training from across the border.

A high-level committee has been formed to probe the terror attack in Lahore, which will present its reports within three days.

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