Information About Incident 41676-79968-198774 in Bagh Pakistan

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During interrogation, the suspected militants confessed that they were to attack the flag-lowering ceremony at the Wagah border on December 22. Khalil confessed before investigators that he had a team of 600 suicide bombers.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Wagah
• Matched District: Bagh
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: they
• Subject: the flag

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

According to a delayed report of December 20, the Police arrested Khalilullah, the Punjab chief of the proscribed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and 17-year-old would-be suicide bomber, Usman alias Shahbaz, from Manawan locality of Lahore, Dawn reports on December 31. Khalil, who was said to be the right hand of late Baitullah Mehsud, allegedly masterminded the twin suicide bombings at Moon Market of Iqbal Town in Lahore on December 7, 2009. According to sources, the Cantonment Division Police raided an outhouse of Malik Nazir in a Manawan locality of Lahore on December 20 and arrested Khalil and the 17-year-old would-be suicide bomber, Usman alias Shahbaz. Police recovered explosive material and sensitive documents from the place where he was living. On confession provided by Khalil, Police captured another eight suspected militants, three of them from Tandlianwala in Faisalabad District. During interrogation, the suspected militants confessed that they were to attack the flag-lowering ceremony at the Wagah border on December 22. Khalil confessed before investigators that he had a team of 600 suicide bombers. According to sources, Khalil was on the US list of most-wanted terrorists. Capital City Police Officer Pervez Rathor said that Khalil arranged food, accommodation, weapons and vehicles for the bombers for attacks across the province.

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