UK experts examine remains of ‘bomber’

By Our Staff Reporter

RAWALPINDI, Jan 7: Scot-land Yard’s forensic experts visited the District Headquarters Hospital on Monday and examined the remains of the suspected suicide bomber and inquired about post-mortem reports, official sources said.

Pakistani investigators recorded statements of people injured by the blast. The domestic team is led by Assistant Inspector-General of Police Abdul Majeed.

The British experts spent more than two hours in the hospital, taking tissue samples of the suspected suicide bomber.

They also reviewed lists of victims and inquired about post-mortem reports on the 15 bodies brought to the hospital.

Dr Khalid Iqbal, the hospital’s medical superintendent, said two legs, believed to be those of the suicide bomber, were being kept in the mortuary, adding that three injured people were convalescing in the hospital.

The hospital, he said, had carried external post-mortems of 15 victims, whose bodies had been brought to the hospital.

The reports were shown to the foreign experts, who examined some papers and left the hospital at 2pm.

Later, the team went to the investigation centre in the Police Lines in Rawalpindi and discussed the case with Pakistani investigators.

Meanwhile, a police party sent to Charsada to trace the family of a man whose right hand had been found at the site of the blast, returned to Rawalpindi without any success. The man, who had been identified by the National Database and Registration Authority, was alive and well in Charsada.

“The police team’s efforts were blocked by a flaw in fingerprints taken from the dismembered hand,” a senior security official said.

Meanwhile, the police team also could not tie anyone with the terrorist incident whose ‘visiting cards’ had been found at the blast site.