(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) ISLAMABAD, Dec 23 (KUNA) -- At least one police officer was killed and four others were injured in a suicide blast on a security checkpoint in Pakistan's federal capital Islamabad on Friday.
In a statement, Deputy Inspector General of Police Sohail Zafar Chattha said at the crime scene that 'a suspicious vehicle' with a man and a woman was spotted by the police in Islamabad's I 10/4 area.
The injured have been moved to the nearest government-run hospital, while security forces cordoned off the area and initiated investigation into the incident.
Islamabad police raised security checks after a wave of terrorist attacks in northern and southwestern provinces that killed several security personnel in the past days.(end)
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