LAHORE: Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police claimed on Sunday to have arrested four suspected terrorists from Sargodha and recovered four suicide jackets, one handgun and a rifle. A CTD spokesman said the agency acted on a tip-off that four ‘militants’ belonging to Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were planning to carry out attack at the offices of law-enforcement agencies (LEAs) in Sargodha city.

He said the CTD team after receiving the information conducted a raid at the hideout of the militants near 47 Bus Stand and arrested the suspects who were identified as Dost Muhammad, Abdul Kareem, Mumtaz Khan and Dawood Khan.

The spokesman said the team also recovered four suicide jackets, one handgun and a rifle from their custody, adding the suspected terrorists were shifted to some undisclosed location for further interrogation.

He said the Sargodha CTD police station also lodged FIR against the suspects. — Reporter