Bus seater carrying ISI staff was target of suicide bomber who acted to board the bus and in act triggered the bomb.
Two suicide bombings on Tuesday ripped through a military bus and another at a market near the Pakistani army headquarters, killing 25 people and injuring over 60 persons at Rawalpindi the Garrison city of Pakistan.
"Initial investigations show the two were carried out by suicide bombers,"
interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema said. Army spokesman
Major General Waheed Arshad said 25 people were killed and 68 were wounded.
The first bombing ripped apart a bus that was taking defense ministry employees to work during the morning rush-hour, leaving 17 of them dead, officials said.
"It looks like a man boarded the bus at the last minute and he was not a defense employee," who then appeared to have blown himself up, Interior Secretary Kamal Shah said.
Bus,40 seater's was carrying employees from Pakistan's premier spy agency in the fight against Al-Qaeda, the ISI or Inter-Services Intelligence, but this was not confirmed by other officials
Second suicide blast about three kilometers (two miles) away in the city's crowded Royal Artillery bazaar was timed to target army officers who use the route to reach the military headquarters, security officials said.
At least eight people were killed in that blast, but it was not clear if any military personnel were among them, Shah said. Other officials said the attacker might have been on a motorcycle. A burnt bike was found at the scene.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either blast. But at least 60 soldiers and 250 militants have been killed in Islamic extremist violence since the military's crackdown on the Red Mosque, which itself left more than 100 people dead.
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