Osama bin Laden dead: peasant neighbour arrested in aftermath
Pakistani soldiers arrested a peasant in Abbottabad near the compound where Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed in a US raid, the man's relatives and police said.
Pakistani police stand guard at the main entrance to the compound where Osama Bin Laden was killed Photo: AFP
4:15PM BST 03 May 2011
Shamrez Khan, 50, was arrested by Pakistani security officials a few hours after the US-led operation on Monday, according to his son and neighbours.
"My father was taken into custody outside his house when he was looking at the house where the operation was conducted," Mr Khan's 20-year-old son Mohammad Qasim said.
Shamrez comes from a family of farmers based next door to the bin Laden compound.
About a dozen neighbours confirmed that army personnel took Mr Khan into custody.
"I personally know this family they are poor farmers. Shamrez Khan is innocent," Mohammad Ishaq, a farmer said.
Military officials were not available to confirm the arrest, but a local police official said Khan was picked up by the military.
"He is in their custody," he said requesting anonymity.
Bin Laden was killed in a daring night-time raid by US commandos on a compound 30 miles from the Pakistani capital on Monday.
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