Two 'would-be suicide bombers' killed in Sargodha

E-Paper | April 26, 2026

SARGODHA: Two suspected would-be suicide bombers were killed when their jackets exploded in Sargodha on Saturday, police sources said.

The two were on Sargodha’s University Road when their jackets exploded, killing them both.

Sources told DawnNews that the would-be bombers' jackets exploded apparently during a fight on Khayam Chowk. Meanwhile, eyewitnesses said the blasts occurred when the bombers were putting their jackets on.

Subsequently, police arrived at the scene and took a suspect into custody. Police also cordoned off the area and an investigation into the incident is under way.

The bustling vicinity has a number of petrol pumps, educational institutions, a railway station, an anti-terrorist court and the offices of the District Police Officer (DPO), the District Coordination Officer (DCO) as well as the Regional Police Officer (RPO).

The bodies of the would-be bombers were being shifted to Combined Military Hospital Sargodha to carry out a DNA test to determine their identity.

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tamil

Jun 06, 2015 01:50pm

Good Job, hope our Tamil police were half as capable.

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sajjad

Jun 06, 2015 02:30pm

I would like the charade enacted right after a bombing to be put an end to, which is, 'police has rounded up a suspect from the scene of the crime'. Come on, he is not waiting there to court arrest and had our police been as capable !. What they do is a sort of racial profiling of a typical stereotype.

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M. Saeed Awan

Jun 06, 2015 02:32pm

unblieveable. If so, then SHABASH

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Dawn Addicted

Jun 06, 2015 02:35pm

This in a way reflects the success of Zarb-e-Azb. The continuous operations and terrorists-hunt has disturbed terror network, especially their training and development facilities. The suicide bombing is a pretty technical and dangerous operation. These unfortunate brain-dead trainees must have been poor in handling the jackets and thus killed themselves due to this obvious reason. However, one thing is for sure that these terrorists have spread in every nook and corner of the country. Our LEAs have to keep searching them even in the most remote and peaceful corners of the country as well. Effective intelligence can ward off such attacks in future.

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Touseef

Jun 06, 2015 03:01pm

Guess they were rehearsing the detonation sequence !

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A Ali

Jun 06, 2015 03:21pm

good.

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comicpk@hotmail.com

Jun 06, 2015 03:33pm

In fact it's a war of complete nation. Every one has to take part in it . each one of us has to be security conscious and keep our eyes open. Report any suspicious activity or person. Keep observing any significant changes in the turn out or behaviour in your closer surroundings. The karachi incident suggests that because it can be any one any where radicalised to that extent. It can be your close relative, a student of a contemporary educational institution, it can be any poor or affluent guy. It's a difficult, tough and long war indeed

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rizwan

Jun 06, 2015 05:06pm

Natural justice-those who live by the sword die by the sword!Please do not bury their body parts but send them to the local zoo for the predator hyenas to enjoy!Alhumdullilah -two down many more to go!

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Sultan Alvi, Canada

Jun 06, 2015 07:55pm

@tamil : It is more of good luck than good job. There was no role of police in it, these two criminals got themselves exploded somehow through their own stupidity.

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Pakistani

Jun 06, 2015 09:54pm

Alhumdulillah no other casualty

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