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Abbottabad, May 5(ANI): Pakistani intelligence agencies have detained at least eleven people for questioning in connection with Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s stay at a luxury compound in Abbottabad.

The Saudi-born terrorist, who had evaded capture for a decade, was killed Sunday night in a top secret operation involving a small team of US Special Forces in Abbottabad city, located 50 kilometres northeast of Islamabad and 150 kilometres east of Peshawar.

The Pakistani military has taken charge of investigations into the circumstances that allowed bin Laden to reside quietly in a three-story house on the edge of Abbottabad, officials said.

Military intelligence investigators returned to the house on Wednesday and spent most of the day working inside the compound, while the army and the police barred journalists and others from approaching the area, The New York Times reports.

An immediate neighbour, who once worked with the family and the construction manager who built the house, is among the eleven people detained for questioning, Pakistani news organizations reported.

The spy agencies have also taken into custody the bodies of four people, who were killed when an American Navy Seals team made an air assault on the house.

Three women and nine children found in the house during the raid are also in the custody of the intelligence services, Pakistani security officials said.

A security official said on the condition of anonymity that least two are related to Bin Laden- a 12- or 13-year-old daughter and his wife, who was shot in the leg, but is out of danger after receiving hospital treatment.

Officials are still investigating the identity of the four people whose bodies were found inside the compound after the Seals team departed with Bin Laden’s body. The bodies included two brothers and a son of Bin Laden, the security official said. (ANI)