Two killed, six injured in suicide blast in Pakistan’s Islamabad

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Two people, including a policeman killed and six people including four police officers and two civilians were injured in a suicide blast in
Islamabad, Pakistan&s capital on Friday, local news outlets quoted police said.According to Deputy Inspector General of Police Sohail Zafar
Chattha, the police spotted a &suspicious vehicle& with a man - a woman aboard at 10:15am in the area
&When the police stopped the vehicle, the couple came out of the car
The man, while being checked by the officers, went inside the vehicle on some pretext and then detonated himself,& he said in a media
briefing at the crime scene
The injured were moved to the hospital in Islamabad, read the reports.Local media quoting one of the witnesses said that a police car and
bikes were either tracing or chasing the suspicious vehicle
He said that the blast took place when the police stopped the vehicle.Talking about the victims, the witness said that the policemen were
heavily injured and some of the people walking around the area were also injured.In a statement issued immediately after the blast,
Pakistan&s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari condemned the blast and expressed grief over the killed policeman.The post Two killed,
six injured in suicide blast in Pakistan&s Islamabad first appeared on Ariana News.