The investigation committee said the attackers had come to attack the church with complete preparation to fight a prolonged battle, adding the attackers had stayed at Kohat Road prior to the blasts to finalize their mission. The team revealed it after finding two pistols and two hand grenades from the blast site. Officials claimed that six suspects have been arrested from the area over alleged collaboration with the attackers. Source said the team is also preparing sketches of the attackers, with FIR of the incident registered in Khan Razzaq police station. On Monday, the investigators claimed that a young woman was among the two church attackers. She carried out the suicide attack soon after her male crony blew himself up outside a 130-year-old Anglican church –All Saints Church – after Sunday Mass in Peshawar Her body parts have been recovered from the blast site, the investigators revealed. The blasts claimed over 87 lives with nearly 150 injured. There were around five to six hundred people inside the Church at the time of explosions. A four-member committee, constituted to investigate the attack, visited the blast site yesterday and reviewed evidences collected from the site. The committee, headed by SSP Investigation Peshawar, prepared an initial report of the incident on Monday,stating that at least 16 kilogram explosives were used in these blasts They said head of one of the two suicide bombers and been found which would be sent to Lahore for the D.N.A test The attack came on the day when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif left for US to attend the 68th session of U.N. General Assembly in New York. He will address the meeting on Friday The Prime Minister said that he himself and the entire nation are shocked over the brutality of this incident‚ which not only amounts to murder of our Christian brothers‚ sisters and children but it amounts to killing a nation. The Prime Minister assured that the federal government stands by the provincial government in this hour of grief and sorrow. Security has been beefed up at churches across the country as protests against the carnage are underway in different cities.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:38:25 +0000
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