Islamabad - Five officers were injured on Thursday when a
suicide car bomber targeted the police headquarters in capital
Pakistani capital Islamabad, a police official said.
The bomber managed to drive through the security cordon at the
main gate and ram his explosives-laden car into a multi-story
building used by the anti-terrorist police as a barracks and
interrogation centre.
'The attacker gave two boxes of sweets to the guards at the main
gate and drove inside without being searched. Apparently it seems to
be a suicide bombing,' Islamabad police chief Asghar Raza Gardezi
told reporters at the blast site.
'We have found some body parts that could be of the suspected
suicide bomber,' he added.
Gardezi said according to initial reports no one had been killed
in the incident and only five policemen were injured.
There were only a few police officers inside the three-story
building as a large contingent of security forces had been deployed
to the capital for the security of lawmakers who were receiving a
closed-door briefing from the military leadership on the ongoing
Islamic militancy in tribal areas along the Afghan border and the
North West Frontier Province.
Police sealed off the area following the blast, which was heard as
far as 2 kilometres away and shattered the windows of nearby
buildings. It created a 1-metre-deep crater close to the building,
which was partly demolished.
The attack came three weeks after a suicide truck bombing hit
Islamabad's five-star Marriott Hotel killing more than 53 people,
including the Czech ambassador, two US marines and a Danish
intelligence officer. More than 250 people were injured.
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