11 killed in Islamabad court suicide attack, TTP denies involvement
TTP spokesman denies any role in attack on Islamabad district courts.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - At least 11 people were killed and 24 wounded Monday in a gun and suicide attack at a court complex in the heavily-secured Pakistani capital Islamabad, police said.
"There was firing by two to three people followed by two suicide blasts which killed 11 people and wounded 24 others," Islamabad police chief Sikandar Hayat told reporters.
"All the attackers fled though one sustained injuries in the leg and back."
An AFP reporter at the scene saw blood and human remains in the court complex.
The death toll was confirmed by other police officials and the spokeswoman for the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Ayesha Isani.
Isani said 20 wounded had been brought to PIMS, half in a critical condition.
Rubble, broken glass and charred human remains littered the site of the blast at the F8 market area as residents and police rushed around in bloodstained clothes.
Roads around the court, located in a well-heeled residential sector of the city popular with foreign residents, were sealed off as police and paramilitary forces carried out a search operation.
On the other hand, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Shahidullah Shahid has denied invovlement in the attack.
The attack took place after the Taliban declared a one-month ceasefire over the weekend in order to pursue stalled peace negotiations with the government.
