Bomber May Have Penetrated Police Lines as Visitor

News Desk

Peshawar: An important possibility is identified by the team investigating Malik Saad Shaheed Police Lines explosion on Wednesday; the suicide bomber might have entered the Police Lines dressed as a visitor.

The team reported that CCTV footage in and around the Police Lines has been gathered and said that the inquiry has been expanded to investigate the possibility that the terrorist was helped from inside the Police Lines.

The team added that a forensic examination of the entry of four suspected individuals into the Police Lines has also been conducted to determine whether these individuals were the bomber’s facilitators.

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The team stated that the suicide bomber’s body pieces have been transferred to a forensic laboratory for a DNA test and that once the results were in, more estimates would be made.

The investigation team has already begun profiling the Police Lines employees.

Following the fatal explosion, security has been stepped up at all points of entry and exit for the police lines, and more officers have been stationed at the main entrance.

IGP Muazzam Jah Ansari said that intelligence-based operations must be carried out against terrorists in suspicious regions because, in the event of a large-scale operation, the entire local population would need to be evacuated.

Muazzam Jah said that the attack on the mosque in Police Lines was a suicide bombing because the bomber’s head and other body parts have been found at the scene and have been transferred for forensic analysis. Meanwhile, CCTV footage is also being checked to determine the loopholes.