Multan, 2 March (AKI) - At least three people were killed and eight injured - including the judge of an anti-terrorism court - when a bomb attached to a bicycle exploded near a flyover in the central Pakistani city of Multan. According to a report on the website of Pakistani television channel GEO TV quoting a regional police office, Judge Bashir Ahmed Bhatti was crossing the flyover with his two guards and a driver when the bomb went off killing his driver and two bodyguards on the spot.The report said that the eight injured people including the judge were sent to hospital with one of them said to be in a critical condition.
Pakistan is in a state of high alert after a series of suicide bomb attacks that began after the Pakistan military conducted an air strike in January against alleged militant camps used by al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the country's tribal area which lie close to the Afghan border.