ISLAMABAD: Italian police has handed over a man suspected of involvement in the December 2014Army Public School (APS) massacreto the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), security sources said Thursday.Usman Ghani — who hails from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Mardan district — was escorted to Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) early Thursday by Italian police after being arrested in Italy, the sources said.Ghani is reportedly wanted for his involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan including the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)-claimed APS attack in which at least 150 people were killed, over 140 of them being children, they said.After he was handed over to FIA, the suspect has been shifted to the agency's passport cell for investigation, sources added.Ghani hails from Mardan's Dher village.Also read: Army claims arrest of key men behind APS attackIn the deadliest terror attack in the country’s history, over 135 schoolchildren and at least 10 other people were killed when heavily armed militants stormed the army-run school in Peshawar.
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