March 02, 2008	Sunday	Safar 23, 1429

LAKKI MARWAT, March 1: The government constituted a special team to investigate Friday’s bomb attack wherein DSP Javed Iqbal and three constables were killed, official sources said on Saturday.

“It is yet premature to say who could be behind the attack but investigation will be carried out on several dimensions to reach the conclusion,” said DSP Malik Tariq, head of the five-member team of investigators.

The special investigation team is consisted of inspectors Arif Khan and Zafrullah Khan, sub inspector Obaidullah Khan and assistant sub inspector Amir Ahmad Khan.

The investigators, Mr Tariq said, would also look into whether the bomb attack had any linkage with that of a suicide blast in the funeral of DSP Javed Iqbal in Mingora. He was optimistic that the local investigation experts would soon trace the hands behind the heinous and intolerable incident.

Meanwhile, a three-member team of bomb disposal squad and crime investigation department (CID) arrived here from Peshawar to collect evidence and assist the local investigators in the probe.

“Both teams visited the site of explosion and inspected the damaged vehicle of the slain DSP,” official sources said. They said the bomb disposal squad (BDS) also collected different material including parts of the damaged vehicle, samples of the soil and other relevant things.

“BDS officials after visiting the site determined that the vehicles was blown with remote control device planted along the muddy roadside near Police Lines,” local investigators said.

Bannu DIG Amir Hamza Mehsood also presided over a high level meeting at his office in Bannu to review the post attack scenario in Lakki. “Matters pertaining to law and order as well as the future line of action were discussed in the meeting,” official sources added.