By NNN-Bernama,
Islamabad : Pakistan on Tuesday said all private guards posted at the United Nations food agency’s Islamabad office, where a suicide blast killed 5 people, have been taken into custody for questioning, claiming that their negligence enabled the bomber to enter the building in the garb of a security man.
It blamed the Taliban for carrying out the attack that killed five people, including an Iraqi national and two women, at the heavily-guarded World Food Programme (WFP) office in the heart of Islamabad on Monday and warned that the group could launch more such strikes, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
All private guards at the WFP office have been taken into custody for questioning and records of all WFP employees are being collected as part of the investigation, Interior Minister Rehmam Malik told reporters.
“It is a complicated matter and the investigation may take some time,” he said and claimed that the attack was the result of the negligence on the part of the private security guards posted at the WFP office.
The bomber, who struck the WFP office, was disguised as a paramilitary trooper and entered the building by saying he wanted to use the toilet. This has raised serious questions about security arrangements in the Pakistani capital.
Close circuit TV footage showed the bomber, wearing the black uniform of Frontier Corps, entering the WFP building. He detonated his bomb in the lobby of the building. The Iraqi national and two Pakistani staff died at the scene and two others died later in hospital.