Oct 9, 2008, 9:17 GMT
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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