DERA GHAZI KHAN, Feb 6: A large number of people attended funeral prayers on Friday for the victims of Thursday’s bomb attack on a Chehlum procession in the Muslim Town area.

Thirty people were killed and several others injured in the attack.Two of the injured died in a hospital in Multan on Friday.

Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, senior adviser to Punjab chief minister, told reporters that police had found a part of the head of the suspected suicide bomber and it had been sent for DNA tests.

Mr Khosa, accompanied by Punjab IGP Shaukat Javed, home secretary Nadeem Hassan and Additional IG (Special Branch) Malik Mohammad Iqbal, visited the DHQ hospital and gave cheques for Rs75,000 each to the 48 injured and announced Rs500,000 million for heirs of the each deceased.

DIG Mubarak Ather told Dawn that more then two dozen people had been taken into custody for interrogation.

Twenty-one bodies were brought in procession from different parts of the city for joint funeral prayers held in the ground of a high school.

Earlier, mourners set on fire a police post at the general bus-stand and damaged a number of shops on the Qaid-i-Azam Chowk and Traffic Chowk.

About 19 injured people were taken to Nishtar Hospital in Multan where Roshan Zamir and Fahim Raza died.

Mr Khosa said the government had asked security officials to thoroughly investigate the incident and submit a report within a week. He said that security arrangements for the procession were not adequate, adding that police officials found guilty of negligence would be punished.

He said that some people had been arrested in the suburbs of Dera Ghazi Khan and pamphlets and videos inciting sectarian hatred had been seized.