Would-be suicide bomber arrested in Torkhum

LANDI KOTAL: Security forces at Torkhum arrested on Friday a would-be suicide bomber along with a suicide jacket and a hand grenade, officials said.

Hailing from the Zakhakhel tribe of Landi Kotal tehsil, the teenage suicide bomber Sulaiman son of Laeeq Khan was later presented before the media at Khyber House, the office of the Khyber Agency Political Agent.

Political Agent Tariq Hayat told journalists that Sulaiman was given training by the activists of Tehrik-e-Taliban in Afghanistan and was send to Pakistan via the Torkhum border to carry out a suicide attack.

The boy, he said was not yet assigned any target before he was nabbed.

The would-be suicide bomber was carrying a jacket filled with seven to eight kilograms of explosives along with a hand grenade.