Authorities have arrested five “facilitators” of the Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers, who attacked two packed churches here during a Sunday mass in March, in one of the worst terrorist attacks on the minority community that claimed 17 lives.
Police in collaboration with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) raided a house in lahore and arrested them. The five “facilitators” have been shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation, police sources said Friday. Weapons and explosives have been seized from them. They said the five accused belong to the Tahreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and were the “facilitators” of the suicide bombers who attacked two churches in Youhanbad — Pakistan’s largest Christian colony that houses over 100,000 Christians.
In one of the worst attacks, two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the gates of St John’s Catholic Church and Christ Church during the usual Sunday mass, killing 17 people.