Information About Incident 47158-91624-230322 in Okara Pakistan

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A CIA Police team arrested five militants in a raid carried out after a tip-off from a Ravi Park resident that terrorists were hiding in the area.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Ravi Park
• Matched District: Okara
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: A CIA Police team
• Subject: five militants

Context

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The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) on December 3 arrested five suspected Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants involved in the suicide attack on Rescue 15 Police and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) buildings in Lahore on May 27, 2009, reports Dawn. A CIA Police team arrested five militants in a raid carried out after a tip-off from a Ravi Park resident that terrorists were hiding in the area. The militants were identified as Sarfraz Ahmad, Shabbir Ahmad, Umer Hayat, Hafiz Mahmood and Abid Akram. Interrogations revealed that the arrested suspects belonged to Al-Tauheed Wal-Jihad Group of TTP led by Dr Umer Kundi. Four explosive jackets, eight mortar bombs, 13 fuse mortar bombs, one hand grenade, 32 hand grenade pins, one pistol, one SMG rifle, one roll of detonator card, 13 fake number plates and dozens of bullets were recovered from possession of the militants. The arrested men had received terrorist training at Datta Khel area of North Waziristan in Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA). The attack had claimed lives of 29 people, 19 police officials and a senior officer of an intelligence agency among them, besides injuring 416 others.

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