LAHORE, March 12: A Punjab civil secretariat scooter rider sent to deliver official mail to the FIA headquarters and other government offices some 30 minutes before the bomb blast is missing.

Muhammad Gulstar Frash, a messenger of the S&GAD’s Welfare-I, left the secretariat at 9am for delivering mail to the FIA headquarters, prosecution, excise and transport departments, LDA and the Governor’s House. But, his colleagues said, he never reached either of the destinations or returned.

They prayed that it would not have been him when their attention was diverted to the motorcyclist who entered the FIA headquarters seconds before the suicide bombers forced their entry into it in a truck.

“We will request the private channels (which showed the film of the truck entering the FIA building) to show it to us again so that we can confirm whether the motorcyclist was Frash or not,” one of his colleagues said.

Meanwhile, eight bodies of the victims of Tuesday's suicide bombing are lying unclaimed in the Ganga Ram and Mayo hospitals because they are mutilated and beyond recognition.