ISLAMABAD: A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up in the parking lot of F6 Super Market in Islamabad early on Saturday morning, Express News reported.
Officials from the Kohsar police station said that a local security guard at the super market had intercepted a suspicious person just before the blast. The suspected bomber was killed and another person who was critically injured, believed to be the security guard, was shifted to the Polyclinic hospital.
At the time of the blast no stores were open in the market place and the area was quite deserted.
Shortly afterwards, a heavy contingent of police, security forces, rescue services descended on the blast site and sealed off the area.
A bomb disposal squad had also reached the site with sniffer dogs to determine the nature of the blast.
Police forensic teams have also been summoned to the site to scour for clues.
There were also unconfirmed reports of a second blast in a car near Karachi Company in D-9 Markaz.