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Remote-controlled device triggered blast?

Islamabad June 15. A remote- controlled device may have triggered the explosion and not a suicide bomber as suspected earlier, the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Fayyaz Leghari, was quoted as saying by the English daily, Dawn.

Police believe the bomb may have been planted in a Toyota Corolla belonging to a local driving school without the knowledge of the four women who were in the vehicle when it exploded, the newspaper reported. "We are trying to determine whether the bomb was planted in the Suzuki Hi-roof or in the Toyota Corolla carrying four women. May be the bomb was in the Corolla, but we have to investigate it further," he was quoted as saying. Police did not check the car as it was carrying women, the paper said.

Three of them were killed on the spot.

Police said the bomb was planted in the driving school car as those behind the attack may have known that it usually took the same route.

The learners drove at a slow pace and kept to the extreme left. Just around that time a youth carrying a cellphone was seen asking a local journalist about the location of the U.S. consulate, the daily, The News, reported.

He further asked whether the offices were on the right or left side of the building while entering the consulate complex.

The blast took place minutes later.

Police believe those who planted the bomb either followed the car or waited for it to reach the consulate and exploded the bomb using a remote device.

UNI, PTI

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