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Pakistan: Female medical student turned jihad homicide bomber planned thwarted Easter Sunday attack on church

A female would-be suicide bomber who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group had planned to carry out an attack on a church in Lahore on Easter Sunday, a military spokesman said Monday.

Noreen Leghari, a second year medical student, is in army custody after being captured during a raid overnight Friday that left four soldiers wounded and her male accomplice dead.

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