3 suspects arrested for Pakistani PM convoy attack
4/9/2008 17:46
Pakistani police have arrested three persons who are suspected to have
been involved in shooting the prime minister's motorcade, according to an
initial investigation report today.
The private Geo TV quoted Tariq Kohsa,
head of the investigation committee and the national police bureau, as saying
that the damaged places were not the sign of stones. He disclosed that the third
car in the convoy was hit by a long-range rifle.
The report will be submitted
to the interior ministry.
Yesterday, gunmen fired shots at Prime Minister
Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani's motorcade in a high security zone on the Islamabad
Highway.
"The prime minister and his staff were not in the car," Interior
Secretary Syed Kamal Shah said. A statement by the Prime Minister's House said
that two of a number of sniper shots fired on the prime minister's vehicle hit
the window on the driver's side.
On the same say, the outlawed
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Xinhua
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