ISLAMABAD, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people, including mourners and policemen, were killed and over 100 injured when a suicide bomber ripped through a Muharram procession near an imambargah in the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on Sunday evening, police said Monday.

    In the regional capital of Muzaffarabad, a suicide bomber blew himself up when intercepted by security personnel guarding a Muharram procession. The procession was passing close to a police barricade in front of the imambargah on CMH Road when the bomber struck, the official news agency APP quoted a senior police officer as saying.

    At least 15 of those injured are in critical condition, it said.

    The gathering attracted about 1,000 people, said police officer Tahir Qayum. Those killed included two policemen, he said.

    The report said that the bomber was trying to enter the imambargah. Panic ensued the blast, which flung a severed leg and other body parts across the ground outside the imambargah as the power went off, said witnesses.

    "The bomber came in front of me. He was accompanying the procession. Police searched everybody on the gate and the bomber blew himself during the body search," said Atif Bashir, a medical storekeeper with a bandaged forehead.

    "The blast was so loud as very near to my home," local resident Pir Meraj told Xinhua. "It is terrifying as blasts seldom happen here," Meraj said.

    Security was put on high alert across Azad Jammu and Kashmir following the attack, and the army was called in to assist the civil administration in maintaining law and order.　 

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