QUETTA: An assistant patrolling officer of the Motorway Police, who was seriously injured after he stopped a suicide bomber from entering the premises of a help centre of the Frontier Corps (FC) in an explosives-laden vehicle on Thursday night, succumbed to his injuries on Friday.

The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack and released a picture of the five suicide bombers who had attempted to attack the FC facility — four of them were dressed in uniforms of the security forces and one was in plain clothes. Eight people, including four FC men, were injured in the blast.

According to official sources, a motorway patrolling officer was at the main gate when the suicide bomber had tried to enter the help centre premises. The officer intercepted the vehicle to check it, but the man driving the vehicle detonated the explosives in his vest and in the vehicle. “Muhammad Idrees, our assistant patrolling officer, was seriously injured in the powerful explosion,” Motorway Police DIG Abdul Hayee said.

Published in Dawn, May 19th, 2018