PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: A four-member committee has been constituted to investigate twin suicide blast in a church of Peshawar which claimed over 80 lives with nearly 150 injured.
Officials said the committee, headed by SSP Investigation, would visit the blast site on Monday and record statements besides reviewing evidences collected from the site.
Sources said head of the suicide bomber would be sent to Lahore for the DNA test.
A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a 130-year-old Anglican church –All Saints Church – after Sunday Mass in Peshawar. There were around five to six hundred people inside the Church at the time of explosions.
Officials said at least 16 kilogram explosives were used in these blasts.
The attack came on the day when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif left for New York to attend the 68th session of U.N. General Assembly. He will address the General Assembly on Friday.
The Prime Minister said that he himself and the entire nation are shocked over the brutality of this incident‚ which not only amounts to murder of our Christian brothers‚ sisters and children but it amounts to killing a nation.
The Prime Minister assured that the federal government stands by the provincial government in this hour of grief and sorrow.
Security has been beefed up at churches across the country as protests against the carnage are underway in different cities.
