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Pakistan's Attock suicide attack shakes country, Home Minister among dead

Pakistan's Attock suicide attack shakes country, Home Minister among dead

By :  DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-08-17 07:16 GMT
A poster of provincial home minister Shuja Khanzada at the site of a suicide bombing in Shadi Khan, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of the Pakistani capital. A pair of suicide bombers detonated their explosives at the home of Khanzada Sunday
He said the intelligence reports had warned about attacks on senior government functionaries, including the minister.
A preliminary report submitted to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif by Sukhera said the minister was killed in retaliation of the killing of Lashkar-e-Jhanghvi chief Malik Ishaq in July 29 in Muzaffargarh district of Punjab.
Lashkar-e-Jhanghvi, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar reportedly claimed the responsibility of the attack. The minister had also received threats from al-Qaeda.
"When the minister entered the hall and started interacting with the people present there both bombers blew themselves up. The blast by the bomber standing outside caused the roof to fall flat on the minister and other people gathered there," he
"There were two suicide bombers - one stood outside the boundary wall and the other was already present in the hall before the arrival of the minister.
Inspector General of Punjab Police Mushtaq Sukhera said two suicide-bombers took part in the attack.
She said the rescue teams are still busy removing the debris. "There may be more people buried under the rubble."
"The death toll of the Attock blast has risen to 20. The rescue operation has not been completed at yet. Some 17 injured have been shifted to different hospitals for treatment," Deeba Shahnaz, a Punjab Emergency Department Rescue 1122 spokesperson,
The roof of the hall where some three to four dozen people were sitting with the minister collapsed in the blast trapping them in the rubble.
Home Minister Shuja Khanzada, 71, and a DSP were among 20 people killed when two suicide bombers attacked his political office, on Sunday, in his native Shadi Khan village in Attock district, some 100 kms from capital city of Islamabad.
The death toll in a brazen suicide attack that killed Pakistan's Punjab province Home Minister at his ancestral home in Attock district today rose to 20.
Pakistan's Attock suicide attack shakes country, Home Minister among dead

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