NAN reports that police sources and a relative of the suicide bombers revealed this to Reuters on Sunday.
Three of the people killed in Friday’s gun battle were the same people who were seen in the undated video on social media, in which they discussed martyrdom and urge their followers to kill all non believers, police sources said. In the video, Rilwan Hashim is seen calling for an all out ‘jihad’, or holy war, while children cry in the background.
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