Three suicide bombers caught in Pakistan's Karachi

KARACHI, Feb 16 (Reuters) Pakistani police arrested three al Qaeda-linked militants who were planning to carry out suicide attacks, a senior police official said after a shootout in Karachi.

''We have recovered a jacket used in suicide bomb attacks, hand grenades and pistols from them,'' Fayyaz Khan, a senior official of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the police, told Reuters.

''Now we are carrying out raids to arrest 10 more members of this group,'' he said.

Khan said the three militants had been trained in Wana in South Waziristan, a restive tribal region on the border with Afghanistan, and a hotbed of support for the Taliban.

REUTERS PB PM1357