Three militants arrested in relation to Lahore suicide attacks

Lahore: Police arrested three men suspected of planning suicide attacks in Lahore yesterday, two days after a twin suicide bombing killed five people in an attack on a navy college in the eastern city.

More than 80 people have been killed in attacks in the past week.

Police said they arrested the three suspects as they got off a bus, after a tip-off that three men were heading to Lahore from a northwestern ethnic Pashtun tribal area on the Afghan border to carry out attacks.

"During the investigation, they revealed that they had plans to blow up some important government installations and personalities," city police chief Malik Mohammad Iqbal said. Police recovered four suicide jackets, 50kg of explosives, fuses, electronic detonators and other material from the three, he said. Iqbal said the three had confessed to being members of a militant group but he declined to say which one.