Karachi car blast: FIR registered against unidentified people

Last updated on: 04 December,2018 04:05 pm

The officer added that as the suspects left, an explosion occurred after nine minutes.

KARACHI (Dunya News) – The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Tuesday has registered first information report (FIR) against unidentified people I case of Karachi DHA car blast occurred on November 3.

The investigation officer reported that as per evidences collected from the CCTV cameras of the area, a man in the stolen car and a motorcycle rider reached the crime scene left the car in the plot near Khadda Market Defence Karachi and fled from the scene by motorcycle.

The officer added that as the suspects left, an explosion occurred after nine minutes.

It is pertinent here to mention that a blast took place near Karachi Defence Khadda Market in a stolen car, however, no casualties were reported, police revealed on Monday.

According to police details, the car was stolen on Sunday night from Jamshed Quarter and in the morning it was traced in an empty plot near Khadda Market in DHA.

The Karachi bomb disposal squad had found six gas-cylinders with at least 8-10kg of explosives.

The squad had reported that there was no evidence of gas-cylinder explosion. The explosion occurred due to homemade vehicle-borne improvised explosive device that was luckily failed to detonate completely.

The team had collected the evidences from the scene and cleared the area. Further investigation into the matter is underway.