Summary Says Awan had suffered three bullet wounds when his guard impulsively fired his weapon.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News/ Agencies) - Interior Minister Chauhdry Nisar Ali Khan has said that Judge Rafaqat Awan, who was killed Islamabad F-8 court incident on Monday, was shot by his own guard.
Speaking in the National Assembly on Thursday, Nisar said that judge Awan had suffered three bullet wounds when his guard impulsively fired his weapon as explosions occurred nearby.
The minister made other revelations about the ongoing investigation into the Islamabad court attack that has left 12 dead and 28 injured.
Nisar said that intelligence and security agencies had obtained information on Wednesday night that pointed towards the perpetrators of this incident, however it was too early to say who was behind the attacks with complete confidence.
He conceded, however, that the target of the attack was a judge who coincidentally was not in court that day.
At least 11 people were killed and 24 wounded Monday in a gun and suicide attack at a court complex in the heavily-secured Pakistani capital Islamabad, police said.
"There was firing by two to three people followed by two suicide blasts which killed 11 people and wounded 24 others," Islamabad police chief Sikandar Hayat told reporters.
"All the attackers fled though one sustained injuries in the leg and back."
An AFP reporter at the scene saw blood and human remains in the court complex.
The death toll was confirmed by other police officials and the spokeswoman for the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Ayesha Isani.
Isani said 20 wounded had been brought to PIMS, half in a critical condition.
Rubble, broken glass and charred human remains littered the site of the blast at the F8 market area as residents and police rushed around in bloodstained clothes.
Roads around the court, located in a well-heeled residential sector of the city popular with foreign residents, were sealed off as police and paramilitary forces carried out a search operation.
An unknown militant group Ahrar-ul-Hind has claimed responsibility of the suicide blast and firing in District Court.
Talking to British media from an undisclosed location, spokesman of Ahrar-ul-Hind said they are an independent group and have no links with banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). He said that Ahrar-ul-Hind would continue its attack until imposition of Sharia in the country.
On the other hand, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Shahdullah Shahid condemned the Islamabad incident and said that TTP had no link to the suicide attack and firing.
