Sun 13 December 2020:
A blast hit a market area in Rawalpindi district of Pakistan’s east Punjab province on Sunday, leaving at least 15 people injured, police sources said.
As per the Rescue official, 22 victims had been shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital, while three were provided first aid on the spot, Dawn reported.
Initial reports suggested that it was a hand grenade attack, however, City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi Mohammad Ahsan Younas said it was too soon to ascertain the nature of the blast.
The CPO noted that it was the second attack near a police station in 10 days.
On December 4, a man was killed and seven other people injured in a blast carried out using an improvised explosive device near Pir Wadhai police station.
CPO Younas said today that there were reports of terror plots and added that progress had been made in the investigation of the Pir Wadhai blast.
Meanwhile, rescue officials said that the explosion occurred at a filtration plant situated across the Ganj Mandi police station.
The area has been cordoned off and officials of Counter-Terrorism Department and forensic experts have arrived on the scene.
In March this year, seven people were injured, one of them critically, when an explosive device was detonated in the busy Saddar Bazaar.
A similar incident was reported on June 12, when one person was killed while 12 others injured in an explosion in the same vicinity.
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