The Peshawar Mosque attacker was carrying a police uniform

Pakistani police mentioned on Thursday that the suicide bomber who carried out an assault that killed greater than 100 folks at a mosque at a police compound within the Pakistani metropolis of Peshawar wore a police uniform and entered the high-security space on a motorbike.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Police Chief Muazzam Jah Ansari mentioned in a information convention that the guards on responsibility “didn’t confirm his id as a result of he was carrying a police uniform… It was a safety failure.”

He confirmed that police had a “very correct thought” of his id after evaluating his head discovered on the scene of the blast to surveillance digicam pictures.

Including that “a complete community is behind him,” Ansari defined that Monday’s assault was not deliberate by one particular person, including that police will arrest the members of the community behind the assault.

“I admit that this was a safety error. My males couldn’t cease the incident. It is my fault,” Ansari mentioned.

The assault got here as tons of gathered to carry out noon prayers at a mosque constructed particularly for cops and their households contained in the closely guarded space of ​​the police strains.

Ansari defined that surveillance cameras confirmed the suicide bomber, carrying a helmet and masks, using his motorbike previous the primary checkpoint of the police strains space.

He added that he then stopped his bike, requested for instructions to the mosque and walked there.

And Ansari added: “The police guards on the essential entrance thought he was from the safety forces and didn’t search him.”

All however three of the lifeless have been cops, making it the worst assault on Pakistani safety forces in trendy historical past.