Rawalpindi, July 02: At least six people have been killed and two dozen others have been injured by a suicide bomber near a congested junction in Pakistan’s garrison city of Rawalpindi.
The blast happened Thursday on the main Peshawar road in Rawalpindi where the Pakistani military is headquartered.
Sources said the attack appeared to have been a suicide bombing and that the bomber’s body parts had been recovered by police.
Rescue teams rushed the injured to the nearby hospitals.
The death toll is expected to rise as some of the injured are said to be in critical condition.
—–Agencies