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Lahore’s Johar Town blast: Police traces house of arrested suspect David Paul

Lahore: Police has made significant progress in the investigation process of Lahore’s Johar Town blast and successfully traced the house of arrested suspect David Paul.

GNN Web Desk
Published 3 years ago on Jun 25th 2021, 10:27 pm
By Web Desk

According to details, David Paul is allegedly a resident of Mahmoodabad. Law enforcement agencies raided his house last night and a few documents were seized during a house search.

No arrests were made during the raid.

Earlier yesterday, intelligence agencies arrested a suspect from Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport in connection with Johar Town blast that claimed three lives.

The suspect arrested from Lahore Airport is a Gujranwala resident who was trying to flee to Karachi from Lahore.

The suspect named as David Paul was offloaded from the flight and taken into custody. Police investigators told GNN that the car used in the blast was sold six times and that David Pual bought this car in Gujranwala.

They said Paul handed over car to terrorists on the recommendation of someone.

On the other hand, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and intelligence agencies have completed the process of gathering evidence from the site of Lahore’s Johar Town blast.

The process of geo-fencing has also been completed. Separately, the CTD arrested several suspects during raids in various cities of Punjab.

It is pertinent to mention here that three people were killed while dozens other sustained injuries in Lahore blast on Wednesday.

The injured were shifted to Jinnah Hospital where they were given treatment and 11 have been discharged from the hospital.