Pakistani police have released a photograph of the suspected suicide bomber who killed at least 139 people, even as former prime minister Benazir Bhutto works out her next step after the bloody start to her comeback campaign. (Source: Times Now.tv)
Newspapers carried photographs of the head of the suicide bomber propped on a white sheet.
"The age of the suspect is between 20 to 25 and he looks to be a Karachiite," said a security official, who declined to be identified.
Police said at least 139 people were killed in Friday's attack and 325 were wounded.
Reuters correspondent in Karachi Matiullah Jan reported on TIMES NOW that identifying the bomber will take some time, and authorities expect that, if he is found to be a Pakistani, he will be easier to trace as his records would be found in the national database compiled by the National Database Registration Authority - which has details of every citizen of Pakistan issued the mandatory computerised identity card. The database contains information on the indiciduals' ethnic background, as well as their place of origin, town or city.
"I saw the bomber"
Meanwhile a bodyguard who was working near Bhutto's truck during the blasts, claims to have seen the suicide bomber.
The bodyguard, who is now recuperating in a Karachi hospital and is one of the many survivors of Friday's suicide attack, says he had frisked and questioned the man he now suspects to have been the suicide bomber.
The bodyguard claims to have stopped the suspect because he was not wearing a security guard's uniform and did not carry an ID-card.
He said to a TV news channel, "We saw a person who was not wearing the uniform of the security personnel, so we caught him and we asked him 'where is your uniform, where is your identification card?' - which was provided to us from the chief security.
Pak bombing suspect's photo released
FE Team | Published: October 21, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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