Pakistani authorities have arrested three suspected suicide bombers and seized more than 1 ton of explosives near the capital, officials said Friday. Senior police officer Rao Mohammed Iqbal told The Associated Press that several suspects, including three suicide bombers, were arrested in the operation late Thursday in the garrison city of Rawalpindi _ just days after a suicide car bombing against the Danish Embassy in Islamabad killed six people. Authorities seized three vehicles with more than 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms) of explosives, Iqbal said, but provided no details on what the bombers allegedly wanted to target and whether the vehicles had been rigged to detonate. Iqbal, the deputy inspector-general of Rawalpindi police, said an official statement on the arrests would be issued later Friday. Pakistan's Geo TV news network quoted Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik as saying that a total of six people, including the three bombers, were captured.
