KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday acquitted two Safoora massacre convicts in School bomb attack over insufficient evidence.
Saad Aziz and Tahir Hussain Minhas, who were handed death sentence in Safoora bus massacre in Karachi, were acquitted by the ATC in grenade attack on a private school in North Nazimabad.
According to the police, the two had carried out a grenade attack which caused the school’s external wall to collapse.
The suspects’ counsel, however, argued that no evidence had been found against Aziz and Minhas and that the school administration has also refused to recognise them.
A military court had awarded capital punishment in the case to Saad Aziz alias Tin Tin, Tahir Hussain Minhas alias Sain, Asadur Rehman alias Malik, Mohammad Azhar Ishrat alias Majid and Hanif Nazir on May 12, 2016, over the Safoora bus attack that left at least 46 people dead.
