 A man died when a bomb exploded in a cyber café in the Gulbahar police precincts on Tuesday, police said. Gulbahar Police Station Investigation Officer Mirza Khan told Daily Times that the bomb was Russian made, weighed around 700-800 grammes, and went off at around 2.30pm in the Nihar Net Café located near the Gulbahar Police Station.
| Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Tahir Khan told Daily Times that the blast had blown off both hands of the deceased, and “it seems that he was trying to plant the bomb”. |
He said the identity of the man killed had not yet been verified and that the cyber café’s owner, Nihar, had fled after the blast. An eyewitness told Daily Times that there were two or three people in the cyber café at the time of the explosion. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Tahir Khan told Daily Times that the blast had blown off both hands of the deceased, and “it seems that he was trying to plant the bomb”. The SSP said police were trying to identify the deceased, who could not have been a suicide attacker as the amount of explosives was small. |