Islamabad restaurant blast caused by bomb: police

Police rule out any possibility that it had been a suicide attack on the restaurant frequented by foreigners.

A bomb planted in an Italian restaurant in the Pakistani capital Islamabad killed at least one foreign woman and wounded at least nine other people on Saturday, police said.

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Inspector General Shahid Nadeem Baluch said the bomb blast had left a crater, and ruled out any possibility that it had been a suicide attack on the restaurant frequented by foreigners.