Pakistani investigators examine a
destroyed army vehicle at the site of a suicide attack in
Rawalpindi on Monday. — AFP |
Islamabad, February 4
Pakistan’s military was again targeted by militants when a suicide bomber today rammed his motor cycle into a minibus carrying medical corps staff, killing at least 10 persons and injuring 30 others, near the army headquarters in Rawalpindi. The explosion occurred at 7.15 a.m. outside the gate of the army’s national logistics cell on a road connecting the Royal Artillery Bazar to the General Headquarters in the nearby garrison city.
At least 10 persons died in the attack, Geo News channel reported. A statement from the army confirmed the death of four security forces personnel but did not mention civilian casualties in the bombing, the first such attack since the December 27 killing of former premier Benazir Bhutto during an election rally in the city. Reports said a major was among the dead.
“It was a suicide attack... a man on a motor cycle rammed into the bus,” a military official said. The powerful blast completely destroyed the bus carrying trainee doctors from the Army Medical College to the Combined Military Hospital and some other vehicles, turning them into a mangled heap of metal.
— PTI
