DERA GHAZI KHAN : At least 41 people were killed, including five children and nine women, as a result of twin suicide blasts at Sakhi Sarwar shrine on Sunday.
Hundreds of devotees from different parts of the country had gathered at the shrine for the annul Urs celebrations when the attacks took place. According to details, 41 devotees were killed and over 90 others received multiple injuries when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the main gate of Hazrat Sakhi Sarwar shrine followed by another blast within three minutes.
However, divisional incharge Rescue 1122 told this scribe that the death toll is over 30 while ambulances from Multan, Muzaffargarh, Layyah and Rajanpur are shifting the dead and the injured to the District Headquarters Hospital, Dera Ghazi Khan.
Agencies add: The bombers struck outside the shrine of the 13th century Sufi saint Ahmed Sultan, popularly known as Sakhi Sarwar. “We have recovered 41 bodies so far,” said the officer, Zahid Hussain Shah.
“Both were suicide attackers, they came on foot and blew themselves up when police on duty stopped them.” “I was just a few yards away from the place where the blast happened,” said witness Faisal Iqbal. “People started running outside the shrine. Women and children were crying and screaming.
It was like hell.” Many of those wounded in the attack were in a serious condition, he said, and the injured have been taken to the Dera Ghazi Khan hospital for treatment.
According to a private TV channel, young doctors of DG Khan and Multan who were on strike for the last 34 days have resumed their duties due to emergency situation. Several people rushed to hospitals for blood donations for the injured. Police have been deployed outside the hospitals.
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