QUETTA- More than twenty suspects have been arrested in Quetta during a search operation in connection with suicide attack on JUI-F Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman, police said today.
Fazal escaped unhurt in the suicide attack after he spoke to thousands of his supporters in Quetta on Thursday. Jundullah group had claimed responsibility.
Police and frontier core raided suburbs areas of the city, a police officer said. He said the arrested suspects were being investigated. The operation was launched after the suicide attack on Fazal and target killing of Hazara community as well as bomb blast at Qambrani road in Saryab area. A total of 13 people were killed and 36 injured in the incidents on Thursday.