Anti-terror patrolman escapes self-murder attack
BAHAWALPUR: A self-murder conflict targeting a counterterrorism military central harmed dual policemen in a southern Punjab district on Friday. Chaudhry Ashraf, a in-charge of a Counter-Terrorism Department in Rahim Yar Khan, remained protected in a bombing.
Ashraf was returning after charity Friday assemblage prayers during a mosque in Shafi Town when his guards – Nadeem and Qamar Abbasi – speckled a questionable chairman clad in burqa, according to police.
As a dual guards approached a think for physique search, he detonated a explosives strapped to his body, military added. Nadeem and Qamar were bleeding in a blast, while Ashraf remained protected as he was inside his bullet-proof car.
The harmed guards were driven to a Sheikh Zayed Hospital as army, Rangers and military crew threw a confidence thong around a site. A successive hunt operation in a area didn’t produce any arrests.
“Investigators have recovered a severed conduct and limbs of a self-murder bomber,” Regional Police Officer Muhammad Idrees told journalists. “The bomber will be identified soon,” he added. “The CTD, military and other law coercion agencies have successfully thwarted several militant attacks.”
After a bombing, confidence in beside Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar has been put on high alert. Deployment of military during a city’s mosques, Imambargahs, and other locations has been increasing and snap checking of vehicles has been started.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 31st, 2016.
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