A suicide bombing has killed at least 12 people outside a judicial complex in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, officials said.
Interior minister Mohsin Naqvi told reporters an attacker tried to “enter the court premises” at about noon on Tuesday, at a time when they are usually packed with visitors attending hearings, and detonated his explosives near a police van. More than two dozen people were injured, Naqvi said.
The attack was a rare strike in the capital, which has remained largely insulated from the surging violence plaguing Pakistan’s western frontier with Afghanistan in recent months. “It’s not just another bombing. It happened in Islamabad,” the interior minister said.