PESHAWAR: Four civilians were killed and 26 others injured in a suicide attack on a judicial complex in the city’s most sensitive location, with attackers crossing three security layers successfully, officials and hospital statement said.
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Three dead bodies were brought to the Lady Reading Hospital while the fourth victim died minutes after he was shifted to the city’s oldest hospital, a statement from the public relations officer’s office said. It added that the dead included a court assistant and civilians.
Three policemen were also among the injured persons getting treatment at the hospital. “Two suicide bombers attacked the judicial complex,” Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Additional IGP Masood Afridi said, as the army joined the clearance operation at the judicial complex on Khyber Road.
Afridi said the attackers entered the complex from the parking area side and were aiming to abduct Additional Sessions Judge Kulsoom Azam. “One suicide bomber was killed, while the other blew himself up when police challenged the attackers,” Peshawar Deputy Commissioner Javed Marwat told reporters. The Bomb Disposal Squad personnel removed the explosives vest from the other bomber who was shot dead by the police.
The motive of the attack could note be ascertained, but Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said it was in revenge “for the failure of the country’s judiciary to defend jailed Pakistani scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui” in the US. Peshawar Additional Commissioner Habib Arif said the attackers were likely targeting the Peshawar High Court just on the back side of the judicial complex.
Follow up:
Three dead bodies were brought to the Lady Reading Hospital while the fourth victim died minutes after he was shifted to the city’s oldest hospital, a statement from the public relations officer’s office said. It added that the dead included a court assistant and civilians.
Three policemen were also among the injured persons getting treatment at the hospital. “Two suicide bombers attacked the judicial complex,” Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Additional IGP Masood Afridi said, as the army joined the clearance operation at the judicial complex on Khyber Road.
Afridi said the attackers entered the complex from the parking area side and were aiming to abduct Additional Sessions Judge Kulsoom Azam. “One suicide bomber was killed, while the other blew himself up when police challenged the attackers,” Peshawar Deputy Commissioner Javed Marwat told reporters. The Bomb Disposal Squad personnel removed the explosives vest from the other bomber who was shot dead by the police.
The motive of the attack could note be ascertained, but Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said it was in revenge “for the failure of the country’s judiciary to defend jailed Pakistani scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui” in the US. Peshawar Additional Commissioner Habib Arif said the attackers were likely targeting the Peshawar High Court just on the back side of the judicial complex.
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