NAWABSHAH: Nawabshah Police have recovered a suicide jacket from a van and arrested the driver Tuesday morning.
The Deputy Superintendent of Police Sakrand Anwar Durrani said that the suicide jacket had five pockets which contained explosive devices. It was recovered from the van, which was parked at a petrol pump on Sanghar Road. The driver of the van was identified as Ashraf Jatt.
He said that the weight of jacket was around three kilogrammes, and it was attached to batteries. The jacked was later defused by the bomb disposal squad. The driver of the van claimed to know nothing about the jacket, speculating that a passenger might have kept his luggage and left, which was later recovered by police.
DSP Durrani said that the van had come from Hub and was parked at the petrol pump. An investigation was started.
