Death toll from Karachi police office terror attack rises to five

Police officer Abdul Latif succumbs to his wounds during treatment

A police officer, who was injured during the Karachi Police Office (KPO) terrorist attack, succumbed to his wounds on Sunday, taking the death toll to five, Express News reported.

Abdul Latif, who hailed from Shikarpur, had been admitted to the hospital for medical treatment following the attack on Friday evening. He was deputed in Security Zone One.

The death toll in the terrorist incident, claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has reached five after the latest casualty.

Terrorists wearing suicide vests and carrying automatic weapons and grenades attacked the Karachi Police Office located on the city's main artery on Friday.

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The attack—which came weeks after a suicide bomber martyed at least 61 people, mostly policemen, during prayers at a mosque in Peshawar—once again ignited fears of another wave of terrorism in the country which had been crushed during successful military operations in recent years.

A five-member committee, led by a deputy inspector general of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), was formed on Saturday to investigate the terrorist attack on the KPO and trace the facilitators of the attackers.

Security forces have identified two of the terrorists involved in the attack. Of the three militants killed in the retaliatory action by the security forces, two terrorists hailed from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).