New Delhi: The police in Pakistan have released a CCTV footage of suicide attackers who struck at the Federal investigation Agency (FIA) building in Lahore.
The police released the security video of the suicide attacker ramming his way through the gates of FIA in Lahore on Tuesday and blowing himself up.
Twenty-two people died instantly the blast virtually destroyed the building.
Minutes later there was another strike and this time at a house in a residential area in Model Town and the method was the same.
Police say they have recovered body parts of two of the three suicide attackers.
Traces of the explosive used have been also been recovered and are being put through forensic tests to determine their origin.
Parallel investigations have begun into both blasts. Police refused to say if al-Qaeda or the Pakistani Taliban were behind the attacks.
However, the timing of the strikes they say could be significant as they happened after Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari decided to join hands in a coalition government.
“They have changed their tactics and they are on the job,” says IG, Punjab Police, Azhar Nadeem.
“It was wrong for whoever did this as many lives of people have been lost,” says a resident.
“I have seen everything turned into ash. My children are dead,” says another resident.
A section of the Pakistani media have speculated that the attacks maybe intended to preempt a military offensive against militants in the tribal areas.
Others say it only proves that the intelligence agencies and army have lost control of the very terrorist groups they had encouraged all these years.
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