vIndianz.com (20 Oct, 2009) — Twin bomb blasts tore from end to end inside university building in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Tuesday, police sources said. Police stated two suicide attackers were behind blasts at the Islamic university in the Pakistani capital.
Police officer Bin Yamin reports four people were killed in the attack. It was uncertain whether they included the suicide bombers or not.
“It was a bomb blast. It was in the interiors of the Islamic university building,” said police official Mohammad Afzal from the emergency response department.
“There was second one a few minutes later,” Afzal told AFP referring to the Islamic International University, on Islamabad’s eastern flank. Students from across the globe be there at the campus to undertake Islamic studies.
According to sources, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the girls’ canteen within the campus.
Ahmed Hassan, a witness, told Express TV that a man entered the university saying he had to distribute something. And then he then detonated himself.
Security personnel hurried to the spot as students and teachers were being evacuated from the place.
Pakistan has been rocked by a sequence of bomb attacks through Taliban militants in the past two weeks and the army is concerned in a main unpleasant against insurgents in South Waziristan.
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