Sindh police issues advisory on tackling suicide bombers

Sindh police department has issued new guidelines to its officers on how to deal with suspected suicide bombers, advising them not to use live bullets and instead use electric stun guns to neutralise the bombers.
The advisory further said that policemen should always try to apprehend the suicide bomber from behind and grip him in such a manner that the palms of his hands remain open and he can not use them.
It also lays out methods to spot a suicide bomber.
Suicide bombers are generally young men and women between the ages of 12 and 24 and the men are clean shaven and usually carry a prayer bead on their hands, it said.

The suicide bomber will always have an unusually inflated look around his stomach area and his shoulders will be dropping under the weight of the explosives, it added.
The guidelines came after Sindh police was successful in foiling the attacks planned by four suicide bombers on Eid day.

Police were able to identify the suicide bombers and stop them at the entrance of a Shia mosque in Shikarpur district's Khanpur tehsil, 470 kilometres north of Karachi.
Though two suicide bombers were able to detonate explosives, but it resulted only in minor injuries, while one suicide bomber was caught by the public and one another managed to flee.

Earlier this week, 23 people were killed and 29 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque packed with worshippers for Friday prayers in Mohmand Agency in Pakistan's restive northwest tribal region.