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Tuesday, June 6, 2017

'Restaurant owned by family of London attacker raided in Pakistan'

BY PTI | UPDATED: JUN 06, 2017, 03.51 PM IST


ISLAMABAD/LONDON: Pakistani authorities today raided a restaurant owned by a relative of a Pakistani-origin militant responsible for carrying out the deadly terror attack in London that killed seven people, according to a media report. 

Khuram Butt, 27, along with two other militants plowed a van into pedestrians on the iconic London Bridge and then started stabbing revellers in nearby Borough market last Saturday, killing seven people. 


The UK police yesterday identified two of the attackers- Pakistani-origin Butt and Moroccan-Libyan Rachid Redouane. 

This morning, dozens of plain clothes officers in Pakistan searched a restaurant of one of Butt's relatives in the city of Jhelum, 60 miles south east of Islamabad, The Telegraph reported. 

The officers - believed to be from Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence agency (ISI)- were seen outside the premises thought to belong to Nasir Butt, a well-known a well-known businessman in the area, it said. 





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