Islamabad blast: A suicide bomber blew himself up killing a policeman in Islamabad's I-10/4 sector on Friday. According to a tweet by Islamabad police, during a regular checking a suspicious vehicle was stopped by the cops.
As soon as the vehicle was stopped, the suicide bomber detonated the bomb triggering a huge explosion. While one policeman was killed on the spot, a few others received injuries and were rushed to a nearby hospital.
Television footage showed mangled remains of a vehicle on fire surrounded by several security personnel. The Islamabad Police said that a major terror attack was averted.
"Head constable Adeel Hussain was martyred in the suicide blast. Due to the timely action of Islamabad Capital Police, the city was saved from a major terrorist attack," the Islamabad Police said in a tweet.
No terror group has claimed responsibility of the attack till the reports last received.
The suicide blast has come days after the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) called off an indefinite ceasefire agreed with the government made in June this year.
The banned group said that the decision to end the truce was taken after “a series of non-stop attacks were launched by the military organisations” in Bannu and Lakki Marwat areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. It also said it had repeatedly warned the people about violation of the ceasefire but showed patience so that the negotiation process was not “sabotaged at least by us”.
"As military operations are ongoing against mujahideen (militants) in different areas... so it is imperative for you to carry out attacks wherever you can in the entire country," the militant group said in a statement.
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