FIR registered in Rawalpindi blast case
RAWALPINDI: An FIR was registered on Saturday of yesterday’s Imambargah blast in Chitian Hatian area of the garrison city.
At least five people were killed and 17 others injured in the blast which police later claimed was not a suicide blast but actually explosives planted outside a house.
A Mehfil-e-Milad was being held in the Imambargah when the attack took place.
By OCTOPUS
January 10, 2015
RAWALPINDI: An FIR was registered on Saturday of yesterday’s Imambargah blast in Chitian Hatian area of the garrison city.
At least five people were killed and 17 others injured in the blast which police later claimed was not a suicide blast but actually explosives planted outside a house.
A Mehfil-e-Milad was being held in the Imambargah when the attack took place.
A faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Saturday claimed responsibility for the the Imambargah blast.
"We claim responsibility of the attack on the Imambargah and vow to continue such attacks against enemies of Islam," spokesman of Jamat-ul-Ahrar faction of TTP, Ehsanullah Ehsan, said in an email.
At least five people were killed and 17 others injured in the blast which police later claimed was not a suicide blast but actually explosives planted outside a house.
A Mehfil-e-Milad was being held in the Imambargah when the attack took place.
A faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Saturday claimed responsibility for the the Imambargah blast.
"We claim responsibility of the attack on the Imambargah and vow to continue such attacks against enemies of Islam," spokesman of Jamat-ul-Ahrar faction of TTP, Ehsanullah Ehsan, said in an email.
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