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Eight held for Karachi blast

KARACHI JUNE 27. Pakistani police and FBI agents arrested eight persons, including three Palestinians and two Sudanese, as part of the investigation into deadly bombings at the U.S. Consulate and a hotel in southern Pakistan, police said today.

The detainees were the latest foreigners apprehended in connection with the attacks, which officials suspect were the work of Islamic militants possibly aided by Al-Qaeda.

In the first raid yesterday, police and the FBI late in the afternoon rushed a group of men who had gathered in car park at Karachi's airport, police said on condition of anonymity.

Police detained two Sudanese nationals, one Palestinian and two Pakistanis and seized seven satellite telephones, the police source said. One of the group was on a call on a satellite phone during the raid.

— PTI

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