Dera Ghazi Khan: At least 42 devotees were killed and about 100 injured when two bomb explosions occurred outside the Sakhi Sarwar shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan on Sunday.
Rescue sources said that rescue official held a suspected person from the premises of the shrine and handed him over to police. They said that they suspect was wearing a suicide west.
Soon after the blast, Rescue 1122 officials rushed to the scene and started rescue operation. The injured were shifted to District Headquarter Hospital, D. G Khan.
Rescue official said about 45 devotees including four children have been killed and about 100 injured in the blasts. DCO D. G. Khan Iftikhar confirmed the killing of 25 people in the twin blasts. He said that children and women were also among the dead.
RPO Dera Ghazi Khan Ahmed Mubarak said that two suspected suicide attackers have been arrested from the site of the blast. He said that one of the suspected suicide attacker was identified as Fida Hussain, who hailed from Dera Ismail Khan and have links with Taliban.
The RPO said one of the arrested suicide bomberm, Fida Hussain, is being treated in hospital for further investigation. He said complete security measures were taken.
Security officials have also taken the skull of one suicide bomber from the spot.
According to the local sources, banned Tehrik-e-Taliban have claimed the responsibility of the suicide attack.
Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani has condemned the bomb blasts by saying that it seems that those involved in cowardice attacks were not Muslims as a Muslim could not dare to even think this kind of activity especially at holy places .
He said that the incident proved that terrorist do not believe in the high values of humanity. These kind of attacks expressed the ghastly character of the terrorists. This was the conspiracy to divide the nation.
Prime Minister ordered the law enforcement agencies to investigate the matter thoroughly and apprehend the terrorists behind the incident as early as possible.
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