ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Interior, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has said that according to latest investigations a single person carried out Charsada suicide attack in which 28 people were killed while 52 others were injured.
Talking to newsmen here on Tuesday before his departure to Mansehra, the Interior Minister said “As per latest investigations, only one person carried out the Charsada suicide attack”.
He said that the attacker was aged between 16 to 17 years adding that further investigations were going on to find further developments in this regard.
About another unidentified dead body that was recovered from the place of the suicide attack, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said the other dead body has been identified from DNA test and NADRA report as he was a local person who had come to attend the rally and was not associate of the attacker.
Regarding his scheduled public meetings, the Interior Minister said that the public meetings will not be postponed and that would be held as per schedules adding such attacks could not push him back from his determination.
To a question Aftab Sherpao rejected prior information regarding the suicide attack in Charsada that carried out on April 28 leaving 28 people dead and wounding 52 others.—Agencies