ISLAMABAD: Large blast was heard in the Red Zone area of federal capital Islamabad on Monday. A suicide bomber blew up a car outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad on Monday, killing eight people and wounding nearly 30 others, state media and officials said.

According to preliminary reports 30-kilogram explosives were used in the attack. Joint team of police, FIA and secret agencies was constituted for the blast probe.

Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller condemned suicide attack on his country’s embassy in Pakistan as “unacceptable”.

Denmark had recently downgraded the embassy and moved out most foreign staff due to threats linked to a furore over the reproduction in Danish media in February of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), diplomatic sources said.

The injured and dead bodies immediately transferred to the Poly Clinic and PIMS hospital in Islamabad. Four dead bodies and 14 wounded were taken to Poly Clinic and a body and 11 wounded were admitted at PIMS.

According to interior ministry sources a foreign national reportedly killed in the blast.

Joint team of police, FIA and secret agencies was constituted for the blast probe. (APP/GEO/AAJ)

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