Over 200 devotees were at the shrine when the bomb went off. PHOTO: EXPRESS
A victim of the Nangay Sarkar shrine bombing died at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Saturday.
Hospital sources said 37 of the 49 injured persons have been discharged while 12 are still admitted in Pims and Polyclinic. On Friday night 50 people were injured by a low-intensity blast at the shrine in Pindorian, on the outskirts of the capital.
Pims spokesperson Dr Ayesha Eshani told The Express Tribune that Nasir Mehmood, 21, who had been brought to the hospital with critical head injuries, died during treatment.
She said Pims had received 38 injured persons including four in critical condition.
“On Saturday morning, 29 injured were discharged while the other eight are still under treatment,” she said.
Dr Eshani said that of the eight injured, Adnan Abbasi, 30, was also in critical condition and was being treated in an intensive care unit.
“All the injured were men aged between 20 and 55 years,” she said.
Polyclinic spokesman Dr Tanveer Malik told The Express Tribune that 13 injured people had been brought to the hospital. “Of them, four are critical and remain under treatment in the surgical ICU,” he said. “Most of the injured had abdominal, leg and chest wounds,” he said.
Case registered
Meanwhile, the city police on Saturday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against unidentified persons under anti-terrorism laws, said a police officer.
According to the officer, the case was registered on the complaint of Muhammad Zarkaiz Kayani, the custodian of the Nangay Sarkar shrine and police have started investigation.
A senior police official said that the incident occurred a day after a massive sweep of the city was conducted by Rangers and the police, leaving a question mark hovering over the effectiveness of the increased security presence.
Shahzad Town Police Station House Officer (SHO) Nawaz Bhatti confirmed that an FIR has been registered. It was a terrorism case, but we have to check if there was a sectarian angle. He said that police are looking into the history of the shrine to confirm whether the attack was by a militant or sectarian group.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 22nd, 2014.
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