“Eight persons have been killed and several others injured after the bomber hit the minister’s house”, Commissioner Rawalpindi region Zahid Saeed said.
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A massive explosion ripped through the political office of the home minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province on Sunday, killing at least three people, according to media reports. The death of seven has been confirmed by the officials but the toll can go up as the rescuers are still looking for the bodies in the rubble. More than 30 people were injured in incident.
The blast occurred in the town of Shadi Khan.
Hussain says one person has been rescued alive from the blast and rescue efforts were ongoing.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab confirmed that Khanzada was still trapped under the rubble, with eyewitnesses saying that 20 and 25 people were still trapped under the debris.
Malik Ishaq, the founder of LeJ, a banned militant outfit blamed for some of the bloodiest sectarian attacks in Pakistan, was killed along with 13 others – including his two sons – in a “gunfight with police” on July 29.
Further, the source said the suicide attacker came from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as Attock is on the border of K-P and Punjab.
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The Federal Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan also condemned the incident and directed the federal and provincial institutions for carrying out immediate rescue activities. “The injured are critical and have immediately been shifted to the Attock District Headqaurters (DHQ) hospital Attock”, Rescue 1122 spokesperson Deeba Shahnaz told Geo News.
