KARACHI: Four policemen were wounded when attackers threw an improvised explosive device (IED) at a police post at Nursery on Sharea Faisal on Wednesday morning, police said.

They added that suspects riding a motorbike threw a bomb, which exploded inside the police post, causing injuries to the policemen.

The wounded policemen were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for treatment where their condition was ‘stable’, said Dr Seemin Jamali, head of the emergency department.

The policemen were identified as Maqsood Ahmed, 35, Nasir Farooq, 38, Abdul Saleem, 30, and Mahiwal Nazar.

The bomb attack on the police post was part of attacks on the police in the metropolis, said Ferozabad SHO Mazhar Mashwani.

It was a kilogram bomb attached to a time device, added the officer.

Published in Dawn, September 4th, 2014