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  • CCTV shows suicide bomber entering Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine

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    Sindh police on Sunday released a video allegedly showing a suspected facilitator of the suicide attack at Lal Shahbaz Qalandar's shrine in Sehwan last week bypassing a security check.

    Inspector General Police Sindh A.D. Khawaja while addressing a press conference said the 'facilitator' shown in the CCTV footage is suspected of involvement in the Shikarpur and Jacobabad blasts. The IGP identified the man as Hafeez Brohi.

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    He added that police have arrested one man in connection to the Sehwan carnage in Johi, a town in Sindh's Dadu district. The suspect has been shifted to an undisclosed location for further investigation, he added.

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    Eighty eight people were killed and hundreds were injured when a bomb ripped through the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan on Thursday ─ the deadliest amongst a series of attacks carried out by militants in recent weeks.

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    The Sindh government will have the case investigated through Sindh police’s Counter-terrorism Department (CTD), as was done in suicide bombings in Jacobabad during Ashura and at Shikarpur’s shrine, and then again last year in Shikarpur on the second day of Eidul Azha.

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    Sehwan police had lodged a case on Friday against one suicide bomber and three facilitators involved in the Feb 16 suicide bombing at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar. The accused remained unidentified.

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    A police source confirmed that an unspecified number of suspects were detained during raids at different places in Sehwan.

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    The shrine has now been opened for the general public.