KOHAT: Youth carried out Kohat suicide bombing: report
By Abdul Sami Paracha
KOHAT, July 20: A wheatish-complexioned youth aged between 18 and 20 years carried out the suicide attack inside a mosque in a military training centre in the city, according to an investigation report.
According to the report, intelligence agencies had found three severed heads, two from the rooftop of a building on the opposite side of the Pathan Centre Mosque, while the bomber’s head was found from the mosque’s lawn.
Eyewitnesses said that after the blast, a live electricity wire had fallen inside the mosque’s compound, effectively blocking rescuers’ entrance.
The security, which was already on red alert, had been beefed up in Kohat region following the blast.
Meanwhile, militants fighting the army in the North Waziristan area distributed leaflets among travellers going to the Thall Cantonment in Hangu district of the Kohat region, warning government servants to stop supporting military rulers, otherwise they would face death.
The leaflets threatened them not to take part in the propaganda campaign against the Taliban even if they could not directly help them, otherwise they would face the same fate.
The leaflets, written in Pashtu, were distributed on behalf of the ‘Miramshah Mujahideen’, in the Thall bazaar on Friday morning.
Meanwhile, a bomb exploded in a drainage line near the vegetable market in Thall area but no loss was caused.
MYSTERIOUS BLASTS: Two huge successive blasts were heard in Kohat and Hangu, but their cause was not determined till the filing of this report.
The Kohat region police attributed the explosions to shockwaves caused by fighter aircraft crossing the sound barrier.
However, the local airbase denied the presence of any fighter jets in the area, adding that no aircraft had entered its airspace since early Friday morning.
It was learnt that the police were trying to locate the source of blasts in the mountains, which are in close proximity of tribal areas.
