Head of Islamabad Bomber Found
'Pakistan Times' Wire Service

ISLAMABAD: Police have found head and pieces of the belt of the suicide bomber involved in suicide bomb explosion in Islamabad before arrival of the chief justice and further investigating into the incident.

16 persons, including three women, were killed and a number of people were wounded in the suicide attack near the stage prepared for the address of the non-functional Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry to the Islamabad Bar.

According to the reports, the bomb exploded at a camp of the Pakistan People’s Party, some 50 meter from the stage, prepared for the address of the chief justice; the stage was much crowded then. Soon after the explosion, the smoke filled the air and the injured and human body parts were scattered everywhere and it was all blood near stage.

At the moment when the explosion occurred, Chief Justice was on his way to Islamabad bar. As soon as the information of the suicide attack was received, his caravan halted at Balochistan House and later turned towards Supreme Court.

The police cordoned the affected area just after the explosion and state of emergency has been imposed. Ambulances rushed to the scene taking the wounded people to hospitals. Blood and human organs were spread at the place of explosion while the blast broke the glasses of vehicles.

According to the interior ministry, one suicide bomber had come on his motorcycle and his head was later found in a bush of trees nearby the place of explosion and the security officials took out the head.

According to sources, there are 12 dead bodies and 35 injured men at PIMS. There dead bodies were taken to Poly Clinic. According to interior ministry, among the 29 wounded, four are reported to be in very critical state.

Emergency was declared in the hospitals of Islamabad and all doctors have immediately been called on duty.

The interior secretary, with an eye to the further potential suicide attacks, security has been put on red alert.

Meanwhile, USA has condemned the suicide attack and termed it a cowardly act.●