SUKKUR: Four bomb explosion has rocked the Barage Colony of Sukkur city of Sindh province while resulted killing of five persons and injures 35 people.
Series of powerful bomb blasts occurred on Wednesday in the sensitive area of Barage Colony where offices of intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Rangers are situated.
According to reports, several people have been injured by the explosions while first blast occurred few minutes after evening prayer and three other explosions carried out when rescue teams started their work.
DIG Javed Odho said that blasts destroyed the ISI office completely while the adjacent building were also affected. He added that the nature of blasts cannot be determined till yet whether the explosives were planted or it is suicide attack.
Several miscreants exchanged gun fire with the security personnel from the building.
Rescue services operator Edhi said that one dead body and 35 injured persons were shifted to the hospital while the rescue operators expressed fear of increase in death as several injured were in critical condition.
According to Rangers spokesperson, two suicide bombers detonated their explosives on Aftaar timings and three attackers were killed by the security forces.
The spokesperson added that some security officials were injured in the battle with militants, however, the building in Barrage Colony has been cleared.
Rescue teams reached the location and shifted the injured persons to the nearby hospital while one dead body received from the demolished building.
Heavy contingents of Police and Rangers’ commandos have cordoned off the whole area to commence a search operation.
AFP STORY:
Gunmen attacked a complex housing Pakistani security agencies in the southern town of Sukkur late Wednesday, killing five people and wounding more than 30 others, an official and state TV said.
Four explosions were heard in the area, where “terrorists” seized control of one government building, another building was under fire and the wall of a third had collapsed, Pakistan’s PTV reported.
PTV said five people had been killed and 38 injured, and that gunfire was continuing in Sukkur, more than 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) south of the capital Islamabad.
Javed Odho, a senior police officer told AFP, that the attack took place in an area where Pakistan’s premier Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, the police and paramilitary had offices.
“Armed people have attacked. Apparently it is an organised terrorist attack, we have sent heavy contingent of police to the site,” he said, speaking by telephone from the town.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Pakistan’s ISI and government security forces are frequent targets for the country’s umbrella Taliban movement waging a domestic insurgency.
But Sukkur has been traditionally immune from such violence, more frequently seen in the northwest on the Afghan border or in Pakistan’s cities of Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and Peshawar.
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