Military Spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said the blasts occurred almost simultaneously at 7.45 am local time, one at a check post near the gate of the army General Headquarters and another targeting a bus carrying defence ministry personnel near a key ISI facility on the Faizabad-Murree Road.

In the attack near the General Headquarters, two soldiers manning the check post in Saddar area were injured when the suicide attacker blew himself up, he added. Earlier reports had said one of the soldiers had died.
The second attack, which had the maximum casualties, occurred at a site opposite the Defence Ministry’s Ojri Camp and near the gate of ISI’s Hamza Camp facility.

The suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a bus carrying defence ministry personnel, Arshad said.
The blast triggered a devastating fire that completely destroyed the bus. Many of the dead were burnt alive while over a dozen people were injured, eye witnesses said.

The injured were rushed to various hospitals in Rawalpindi and doctors said the condition of several of them were critical, TV channels reported.