Pakistan Police Say They Foiled Attack

Four days after a car bomb attack on the Danish Embassy in Islamabad killed at least six people, Pakistani authorities said Friday that they had foiled a new onslaught when police intercepted three vehicles laden with a ton of explosives and arrested three alleged suicide bombers.

The arrests came during a security alert Thursday following the attack Monday when a car bomb detonated outside the Danish Embassy. Responsibility for that attack was claimed Thursday by an Al Qaeda operative in Afghanistan as vengeance for the publication in Danish newspapers of cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad.

Rahman Malik, a senior government adviser, told reporters on Friday that, in two operations late Thursday, six people were arrested — three of them alleged by the police to be potential suicide bombers.