Pak bombing suspect on shrine CCTV

Updated on: 03 July,2010 08:16 AM IST |
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Footage shows guard chasing a bomber during dargah attack that left 41 dead

Footage shows guard chasing a bomber during dargah attack that left 41 dead

Tragic: Security officials at the site of suicide bomb attacks, the Saint
Syed Ali bin Osman Al-Hajvery shrine in Lahore yesterday. pic/AFP

Suspicious man
The images broadcast by local television channels were obtained from close circuit television cameras installed at the Data Ganj Bakhsh shrine. A guard identified as Salim Raza, who was posted at an entry gate equipped with a scanner, detected a suspicious man clad in a green turban, white robes and a shawl and carrying a bag.

He ran after the bomber who seconds later detonated his explosives, engulfing the site in a huge cloud of white smoke and leaving the white marble floor splattered with blood, body parts and people's belongings.
"We were searching everyone walking through the gate," said Rao Fazal-ur Rehman, an administrator at the shrine.

"One bomber crossed the gate and a security guard ran to catch him because he looked suspicious but in the meantime he blew himself up," Rehman said. One of the two suicide bombers was identified yesterday, as Usman, a resident of Barki Hadyara, near Lahore.

Two alleged suicide bombers blew themselves up at the shrine on Thursday night, killing at least 41 people and injuring 170 others.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.u00a0

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