Pakistani investigators trace another flat belonging to Karachi suicide bomber

Karachi: Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Sindh police and other law enforcement agencies have announced that they have traced out another flat of the female suicide bomber involved in the Karachi University attack that killed four people including three Chinese nationals.

The CTD announced that the flat was situated on the first floor of a residential building in Street No10 of Delhi Colony.

The CTD seized laptops, mobile phones and other important documents from the flat before sealing it off.

The CTD said that the flat was rented two months ago, while information was also obtained from the residents who revealed that the female suicide bomber would sometimes visit the flat with her husband and two children. However, the couple did not talk much with anyone.

Investigators are also looking for the real estate agent who helped the female suicide bomber acquire the flat on rent, while footage of close circuit TV cameras, installed in the residential building, is also being obtained.

The authorities had also detained an online taxi driver for questioning. He was later released after obtaining information. The taxi driver had picked up the suicide bomber from a hotel near Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center.

Investigators have also identified a school in Gulistan-e-Jauhar where the daughter of bomber studied and the scope of the investigation has been widened.

Earlier, the CTD officials tracked down and sealed the flat on the third floor of a building in Block 13 of Gulistan-e-Jauhar which belonged to Shari Hayat Baloch alias Barmash, who carried out the suicide attack on a Chinese teachers’ van at Karachi University.

Whereas the house of the father of the suicide bomber, located in Scheme 33, was also traced and sealed after a search.

Recce footage Investigators have obtained footage of a female bomber committing suicide attack at Karachi University. In the video, the female suicide bomber can be seen on the crime scene 24 hours before the suicide attack on April 25 at 2:08pm.

The next day, according to the footage, the female suicide bomber attacked a van at 2:07:32 pm on April 26, killing three Chinese teachers and a Pakistani van driver.

The footage shows female suicide bomber Shari Hayat Baloch walking on the spot, noticing time and doing recce of the van. It is also suspected that her facilitators were also present during the recce of the suicide bomber. The female suicide attacker entered University of Karachi in rickshaw from Silver Jubliee Gate at the day.