Malik angry over DIK blast, orders probe

ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rahman Malik Sunday expressing his annoyance over the Dera Ismail Khan blast ordered investigation into the gruesome incident and has sought report from the Khyber Pukhtunkhaw I. G., Geo News reported.
Seeking immediate report from the authorities, Rahman Malik enquired as to why the procession route was not got cleared by the bomb disposal squad.
In a handout issued here, the interior minister strongly condemned the bombing of the Muharram procession and said that had the route been got cleared by BDS, the blast would have been averted. He ordered investigation into the incident as well as probe as to why the route was not got cleared.

According to Rahman Malik the blast occurred through a time device bomb planted in a cycle shop.
Earlier, five persons were killed while seventy people injured in a remote control blast in Dera Ismail Khan.