CID building blast toll rises to 17

KARACHI: The death tally from the blast at CID building occurred on Thursday night has mounted to 17, Geo News reported Friday.

Meanwhile, sources said that the investigative agencies have kicked off probe into the tragedy. The funeral prayers of deceased police and frontier constabulary have been offered. Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza and other high-ranking officials attended the prayers.

Two more dead bodies have been recovered from the debris one of which was of the missing FC personnel, medics said.

A day earlier, Karachi police said activists from Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, a group linked to Al-Qaeda and notorious for bombing Shiite Muslims, had been arrested. Officials on Friday said TTP members had also been rounded up in recent weeks.

It is pertinent to mention here that terrorists carried out the deadly attack on Thursday night as they targeted highly guarded CID building located in the Red Zone area by exploding heavy amount of exclusives.

So far, 17 people have been confirmed killed and 140 have been injured in the blast.

The defunct outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility of terrorist attack on CID building.

Most among wounded persons are women and children, hospital sources confirmed to media.

The explosion created two 15-feet deep craters at the blast site besides destroying a nearby mosque, Madeena and shattering windowpanes of many abutting buildings.

Bombings across the country have killed more than 3,800 people since troops stormed Lal Masjid in Islamabad three years ago.