The Tuesday’s blast near a military checkpost in the cantonment area involving a young woman was not a suicide attack, police officials said, adding that the woman was used as a carrier. “She was used by terrorists,” a senior police investigator told Daily Times on the condition of anonymity. “She did not appear to be a suicide bomber because there are no intelligence reports suggesting that terrorists are training women suicide bombers,” he added.
Cantonment Police Superintendent Ijaz Khan said that it was not a suicide attack. “She was only carrying explosives, weighing around one kg, from one point to another,” he said.
He quoted a guard as saying that the woman was carrying some stuff tied in cloth. Ijaz said her injuries also indicated that she was carrying explosives in a packet. “The left side of her torso is severely damaged as compared to the right side, which proves that she was used as a carrier,” Ijaz said, adding that the woman’s body was mutilated on the left side below her chest, while her right leg was blown away.
In suicide attacks, he said, usually Russian-made MUV2 explosives were used, but this device was not used in the blast. Some parts of a Samsung cell phone were recovered from the scene, which could have been used as a remote to trigger the explosion. “Either she was going to plant it somewhere or was being used to handover the explosive to someone else while her handler was chasing her,” Ijaz added. So far, he said, the police had not recovered ball bearings or any shrapnel from the scene. |