Daily Times

SEHWAN: Residents of Sehwan on Saturday found remains of the bombing victims at a garbage dump.

They informed the authorities to shift the body parts to a safer place. When the authorities did not show up the people buried the remains at a graveyard. CM Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah has taken “serious notice” of the matter and directed Commissioner Hyderabad Pervez Shahid to submit a report within 24 hours.

Separately, Jamshoro police registered a case of the Sehwan bombing against the suicide bomber and three of his facilitators. The first information report was lodged under Sections 302, 353, 324, 295, 120/B, 440, 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code, 3/4 of the Explosive Substance Act and 6/7 of the Anti Terrorism Act. SSP Jamshoro Tariq Walayat told journalists that the police found that three terrorists had facilitated the suicide bomber at the shrine. “CTD officials are investigating the suicide blast at Sehwan Shrine and geo fencing were completed by the CTD team and evidence was collected,” he said. Walayat said that at the time of the suicide blast police officials were present and a constable was also killed in the blast.

Meanwhile, Jamshoro DC Munawar Mahisar led the cleaning work of the shrine and allowed the devotees to hold a Dhamal and pilgrimage at the shrine of the Sufi saint. Separately, Director General Health Services Sindh Dr Hassan Murad Shah confirmed that the death toll from the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar attack had risen to 88. According to an official list of casualties, 76 bodies were received and handled at the Shah Abdullah Institute of Medical Sciences, four at the People’s Medical University (PMH) Hospital in Shaheed Benazirabad, and eight at Chandka Medical University Hospital in Larkana.