ISLAMABAD, Dec 14 (NNN-APP) – A blast hit a market area in downtown Pakistan’s garrison city of Rawalpindi, neighbouring the country’s capital, Islamabad, yesterday, leaving at least 25 people injured, rescue officials and police said.
Personnel of a rescue team told media that they shifted 22 injured to a local hospital, while discharged three others, after providing them first aid at the site.
A couple of wounded persons were in critical condition, as they were shifted to hospital, the rescue official said.
City Police Officer of Rawalpindi, Mohammad Ahsan Younas, told media that an improvised explosive device was planted under a cart, which exploded in the busy Ganj Mandi market, near a police station, roughly two kilometres away from the military headquarters.
No group or individual has claimed the attack yet.
The police officer said, it was the second attack near a police station, during the last 10 days, in the city. Earlier, on Dec 4, one person was killed and seven others were injured in a blast by an improvised explosive device near the Pir Wadhai police station.
The police officer added that police intelligence had already reported some possible terrorist attack in the city, adding that, the police obtained some important progress in the investigation, which would help to arrest the culprits.– NNN-APP
