Jammu: In a major breakthrough, police on October 12 arrested 10 people involved in the September 4 suicide attack on Kamsar Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, which had left three persons killed and nine injured, busting a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) module.

Working on the leads, a police team led by Deputy Superintendent of Police (Headquarters) Nasi Ahmed arrested two overground workers of the module, which had helped the two-member LeT suicide squad to carry out the attack on the army camp, Senior Superintendent of Police Mukesh Singh said in Jammu.

On interrogation, Arfan Joo and Ahmed Din alias AD revealed the identity of the other eight members of the full-fledged module working directly under the command of the LeT commander for Poonch Ashan Elahie, he said, adding all of them were subsequently arrested.

Those arrested besides Arfan Joo and Ahmed Din have been identified as Zahid Ahammad Bhatti, Mohammad Bhatti, Parveez (all students), Mohammad Mushtaq, Farooq Ahmed, Abdul Majeed, Gulam Mohammad and Ahmed Joo all from Seri Khawaj village of Poonch, Singh said.

As per the investigation, Elahie, the mastermind behind the attack on the army camp, entrusted the task to two Pakistani "fidayeens", Jameel Ahmed and Farooq Ahmed.

Elahie along with the 10 arrested members of the module had chalked out the plan for the attack on August 27 at Seri Khawaja, Singh said.

PTI