Suicide bomber killed in Pakistan
Police guards shot and killed a suicide attacker today as he tried to sneak into a training facility for 900 police recruits in eastern Pakistan, preventing him from detonating his explosives.
The guards quickly reacted when the man – who was wearing an explosive-laden belt and holding a grenade-- opened fire from behind the police training facility in the eastern city of Sargodha.
Hamid Mukhtar Gondal, the city’s police chief, said guards “swiftly reacted and killed the suicide bomber”.
One of the police officers was killed and another was injured in the shootout.
Gondal said police and bomb disposal experts were examining the explosive-laden jacket worn by the man.
“One of our officers saw the attacker, and asked him to halt. But, he opened fire, and killed him,” he said. God is very kind that the attacker was killed by our guards, and he could not detonate the bomb,” he said.
About 900 police were doing morning exercises when the man opened fire from less than 500 yards away.
Gondal said they had deployed additional police and commandos at the training facility after recent attacks against security forces.
