| GEO Pakistan | | Eight killed in blast near Danish embassy in Islamabad | Updated at: 1612 PST, Monday, June 02, 2008
 ISLAMABAD: The death toll in car bomb blast near Danish embassy in Islamabad on Monday has reached to eight including two security guards, while 18 were wounded in the attack.
According to preliminary reports 30-kilogram explosives were used in the attack. Joint team of police, FIA and secret agencies was constituted for the blast probe.
Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller condemned suicide attack on his country's embassy in Pakistan as "unacceptable".
Norway has temporarily closed its embassy in Islamabad after the suicide attack.
The blast at about 1:00 pm near the Danish embassy in Islamabad rocked the area.
According to initial reports an explosives laden car was parked in the parking lot. The car blast destroyed nearby buildings and at least two dozen cars parked in the area.
The injured and dead bodies immediately transferred to the Poly Clinic and PIMS hospital in Islamabad. Four dead bodies and 14 wounded were taken to Poly Clinic and a body and 11 wounded were admitted at PIMS.
The injured brought to Poly Clinic were identified as Maimoona Abbas, Farzana Shaheen, Saima Hussain, Muhammad Hussain, Zaman, Muhammad Haleem, Najeeb Aslam, Muhammad Waseem, Tarique, Sher Azam, Sardar Ali, Muhammad Altaf and Hyder Sultan. The injured that were admitted at PIMS were included Allah Ditta, Jahangir, Gul Rehman, Sajjad Maseeh, Tanveer, Abdul Mannan, Nasir Ahmed, Waqar and a Brizilian national Maria.
Two dead bodies identified as Zafar Iqbal and Muntazir Hussain were also brought to PIMS.
According to interior ministry sources a foreign national reportedly killed in the blast.
Joint team of police, FIA and secret agencies was constituted for the blast probe. |  |
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