Pakistan suicide car bombing kills one police official, injures others

According to police officials, as they chased the car, the people inside the vehicle blew it up.

Rescue workers and police officers gather at the site of a suicide car bombing in Islamabad, Pakistan on 23 December, 2022 | Reuters

Islamabad: A suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad on Friday killed one police official and injured several others, police said.

“Our initial information says that there was a man and a woman in the car,” Islamabad operations police chief, Sohail Zafar, told reporters, adding that the car did not stop at the checkpoint when police tried to stop it.

“As they chased it, the people inside the car blew it up.

“It was a suicide blast,” he said, adding that at least six more people who got injured. -Reuters

(Reporting by Asif Shahzad; writing by Sudipto Ganguly; Editing by Krishna N. Das)

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