Suicide car bombing at Islamabad kills one police, injures others

Reuters | | Posted by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao
Dec 23, 2022 01:14 PM IST

The bombing that took place in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad killed one police official and injured several others.

A suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad on Friday killed one police official and injured several others, police said.

Pakistani police commandos stand guard at a suicide blast site in Lahore on March 28, 2016.(AFP FILE PHOTO)
Pakistani police commandos stand guard at a suicide blast site in Lahore on March 28, 2016.(AFP FILE PHOTO)

"Our initial information says that there was a man and a woman in the car," Islamabad operations police chief, Sohail Zafar, told reporters, adding that the car did not stop at the checkpoint when police tried to stop it.

"As they chased it, the people inside the car blew it up.

"It was a suicide blast," he said, adding that at least six more people who got injured.

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