ISLAMABAD: Officials investigating the terrorist attack in Attock have made a sketch of the suspected suicide bomber. They also arrested a man on suspicion on Friday from a seminary in Hazro, officials told Dawn.

They claimed that the sketch was made with the help of remains of the face belonging to a suspected suicide bomber which was reconstructed at the blast site.

“So far we have succeeded in reconstructing the face only,” they said, adding that at the moment efforts were being made to identify the suspect with help of the sketch. Punjab Home Minister (retd) Col Shuja Khanzada and 18 others lost their lives in the attack on the minister’s ancestral home on Sunday.

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According to the officials, keeping the sketch in focus, the suspect seems to be a Punjabi. However, this was not the final opinion, they added.

Meanwhile, law-enforcers and security forces picked up a student from a seminary in the Takik village, tehsil Hazro, in a joint raid.

Security forces identified the student as Shah Azam, a resident of Bara, Khyber Agency.

They added that he had been arrested on suspicion of being a facilitator of the unidentified suicide bomber.

The officials said during the last five days scores of arrests had been made from different areas.

The investigators, they added, were taking people into custody on suspicion and were interrogating them at different places.

Published in Dawn, August 22nd, 2015

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