QUETTA: Funeral prayers of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Amanullah, who martyred yesterday in the mosque blast in Satelite town, have been offered.
The martyred DSP on Saturday laid to rest in QDA graveyard after his funeral prayers.
As many as 15 persons including the DSP had lost lives in the yesterday blast which ripped through during the Maghrib prayers.
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has registered an FIR of the blast at a mosque in Quetta’s Satellite Town.
According to the CTD, the Satellite Town SHO filed the case and it includes sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act and Pakistan Penal Code.
The PPC sections relate to possessing illegal explosives, murder and attempted murder. It has been lodged against unidentified suspects.
Six to eight kilogrammes of explosives were used in the suicide blast, as per the the authorities, while the site of the attack has been sealed and evidence has been collected and sent for forensic testing.
The police have yet to determine who the target of the attack was. A police officer, DSP Amanullah, was one of the victims.
