Police obtained finger prints belonging to five people during the forensics of the vehicle used by the terrorists who attacked the Karachi Police Office on Friday. The fingerprints are being checked against the NADRA records.

According to investigative sources, shoes, a cap, a plastic bag, a handkerchief and an ajrak were found in the vehicle. Police also found a rope, mat, rug, socks and Kalashnikov magazines.

Investigators have not yet been able to trace the original owner of the vehicle. The third terrorist killed in the attack hasn’t been identified yet. The third terrorist’s fingerprints could not be matched with the National Database and Registration Authority records.

Atleast two of the terrorists killed in the Karachi police office attack had visited Afghanistan before the attack, sources in the police said on February 19,Saturday.

CTD submits report

The Counter Terrorism Police Department submitted a preliminary report about KPO attack to the Anti-Terrorism Court on Wednesday.

The CTD report revealed that 2 facilitators of the terrorists killed in the incident are still at large in Karachi and police are searching for them. According to the report, two people rode alongside the attackers on a motorcycle . “When the attackers got out of their car the motorcyclists hugged them and rode away,” the report stated.

The report stated that terrorists attacked KPO on February 17 at 7:15 pm. DIG South conducted an operation against the terrorists.

After a long gun battle, two militants were gunned down while the third one blew himself up on the fourth floor of the building, the CTD report said. Five rangers and policemen were martyred and 18 people were injured.

The report stated that the terrorists that were killed belong to the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan, who reached the Police Sadar Line in a vehicle. The vehicle parked near the Sadar Police Line has also been taken into custody.

Five grenades and two suicide vests were seized and defused . The FIR against the three militants, their facilitators and TTP spokesperson was registered under Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 34 (common intention) read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act and Section 3/4 of the Explosives Act 1908.

According to the report, the statements of all the people present in the police office have been recorded.