Investigators are focusing on how the attacker managed to breach the military and police checkpoints leading into the Police Lines district, and aren't ruling out that the attacker received 'internal assistance'.
Police investigating a suicide bombing that killed more than 100 people at a Pakistan mosque say that several people have been arrested, and they could not rule out the possibility the bomber had internal assistance evading security checks.
The bombing was the most deadly in a decade to hit Peshawar, a restive north-western city near the Afghan border, and all but three of those killed were police, making it the worst single attack suffered by Pakistan's security forces in recent history.
"We can't rule out internal assistance, but since the investigation is still in progress, I will not be able to share more details." Investigators, who include counter-terrorism and intelligence officials, are focusing on how the attacker managed to breach the military and police checkpoints leading into the Police Lines district, a colonial-era, self-contained encampment in the city centre that is home to middle and lower ranking police personnel and their families.Defence Minister Khawaja Asif had said the bomber was in the first row in the prayer hall when he struck.
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