Suicide bomber targets Police

A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a special police branch office, killing a guard and wounding at least two other people in Islamabad.

The bomber detonated his explosives on Monday at the entrance to the building, used by police intelligence and bomb disposal units, close to the Sitara market in the centre of Islamabad, officials said.

'One guard was killed and two or three wounded. The suicide bomber was killed,' interior ministry chief Rehman Malik told private Geo television.

Police collected up the parts of the suicide bomber, including teeth set in raw, bloodied flesh splattered yards away from the site of the blast, putting them in a shopping bag, said an AFP reporter.

An AFP photographer saw another body, as rescue workers scrambled to the scene, behind a police and paramilitary cordon.

The attack late on Monday came on Pakistan Day, a public holiday that marks the 1940 resolution calling for an independent Muslim state on the subcontinent, seven years before British rule ended and Pakistan was created.

'We ordered a high alert in Islamabad from morning because an investiture ceremony had been scheduled at the president's house on the occasion of Pakistan Day,' Malik said, condemning the 'terrorist' attack.

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