Afghan security forces have arrested five would-be suicide bombers Thursday in Kabul -- the largest group of suicide bomber ever detained in the capital
"If this team had made it through it would have been a disaster as we've seen in past instances," said Abdul Ghafar, deputy commander of the Afghan National Police crisis unit.
The arrest has apparently avoided a repetition of last February's coordinated attack on an Indian guesthouse and a shopping mall in Kabul, in which at least 17 people, including 9 Indian nationals, were killed.
The group was arrested in southeastern part of the city.
The bombers were sent by the Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, operating along the Pakistani-Afghan borders.
"Today's operation marks a big success," Ghafar said. "Our capacities are improving day by day and also our ability to uncover such plots is improving day by day".
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