KARACHI: FIR registered

Published October 20, 2007

KARACHI: The Bahadurabad police have registered an FIR of the suicide attack on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s motorcade that left over 134 people dead and more than 400 others injured on Thursday.

A senior police official told Dawn that the FIR (183/2007) was lodged on Friday by Bahadurabad police station sub-inspector Abid Shah on behalf of the state under Sections 324 (Attempt to commit Qatl-i-Amd), 302 (Qatl-i-Amd), 427/34 (Mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 3 (Punishment for causing explosion likely to endanger life or property) and 4 (Punishment for attempt to cause explosion or for making or keeping explosive with intent to endanger life or property) of the Explosive Substances Act 1908. He added that the FIR had been registered against unknown persons.

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