KARACHI, Oct 20: The Central Investigation Department (CID) sent Friday
four heads found at the scene of Thursday's bomb blasts to the University of
Karachi for DNA testing. The Home Ministry has claimed that there is only one
head.
Video of 18 Oct, 2007 Karachi bombing.
Well placed sources in the CID said that the CID police
collected four heads from the scene. These heads have yet to be identified or
claimed. After the DNA is tested, if a family member submits a claim,
verification will be carried out by matching blood and DNA.
Some sources
in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said that the possibility of two
suicide bombers cannot be avoided and investigation teams are focusing on the
issue. A senior CID official, SP Raja Umer Khatab, said that the CID police are
working on the case and that they are taking the finger prints of the body parts
at the scene. Sources also said that the explosives used in Thursday's attack
were the same used in the Nishtar Park bombing and the attack on MMA member and
Shea leader Maulana Hassan Turabi. Sources suspected that Abid Mehsood, who is
the right-hand man of Baitulllah Mehsood, was the mastermind behind these
attacks and that the attacks were carried out with the help of Mufti Ilyas of
the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
According to witnesses, there was a suspicious
man who was injured and brought to the JPMC. A group of plain-clothed men came
in, interrogated him and then took him away. Witnesses said that they heard the
man saying that his name was Sarfraz and that he was a resident of Landhi,
however, the men surrounding him read out his ID card which revealed that he was
from Shikarpur. Capital City Police Officer Azhar Ali Farooqui denied that this
incident took place. Daily Times
