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‘Bombers’ take families hostage to drive into police

By Mahim Maher

KARACHI: Men claiming to be terrorists with suicide jackets are taking families in cars hostage, and asking them to drive towards clusters of police or Rangers, according to two reports received by Daily Times.

According to one authenticated report, a couple with their one-year-old baby were going shopping when a man got into the backseat. He was wearing a shawl that he pulled away to reveal a “suicide jacket”. “Drive to wherever you see five to six policemen standing around,” he said. “Then I’m going to blow us all up and even you will be Shaheed [martyred] like me.”

They drove around for three hours after which the man had the couple drop him off at Native Jetty Bridge.

In the second case, on Friday, a couple with two children were driving past the Saudi Arabian Embassy when a man got in at a traffic signal. “Astaghfir Allah! I don’t want your watch or money; I just want you to hit the first Rangers mobile unit you see,” the man said when the husband offered his watch and money. The man later disembarked at the same area. Police chief Niaz Ahmed Siddiqui said that no one had registered an FIR yet. “We have received reports that this is happening,” he said.

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