Security
forces, hunting for suspects in the deadly Easter Sunday bombing
targeting Christians in a Lahore park, raided locations in three cities
overnight and arrested suspected terrorists, a military spokesman said
Monday on Twitter.
No details
were given on who had been arrested or what role -- if any -- they may
have played in the bombing, which killed at least 72 people and injured
341 others, Punjab province Chief Secretary Khizer Hyat said Monday.
Twenty-four children were among the dead, according to Punjab province police.
A
splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban, Jamat-ul-Ahrar, claimed
responsibility for the attack, saying it had targeted Christians. The
group vowed more such attacks.
The
overnight raids by military and intelligence agencies targeted locations
in three cities across the Pakistani province of Punjab, including
Lahore, Faisalabad and Multan, military spokesman Lt. Gen. Asim Bajwa
tweeted.
In
addition to the unspecified number of arrests of suspected "terrorists
and facilitators," forces also recovered a "huge cache of arms and
ammunition," Bajwa said.
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