PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban are now using more toxic chemicals in their explosive devices to inflict lethal injuries on victims of their bomb and suicide attacks, according to officials.
Quoting doctors, the officials said that the people who sustained injuries in Taliban attacks developed complications due to presence of toxins in the explosives.
“The survivors of Taliban’s bombs suffer from chronic wounds that leave scars on skin and don’t respond to antibiotics with proven efficacy in other surgical infections,” they said.
The officials said that the explosives used by Taliban left lasting effects on the injured people.
“Taliban have now mastered the science of manufacturing bombs that cause more than the intended casualties as they are imparted training in the use of potassium, nitrogen, sugar, urea and glycerine, etc in the bombs,” they said.
The officials said that terrorists used phosphorus in explosives that destroyed human cells.
The Taliban-made bombs produced carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, which damaged the oxygen-binding capacity of the survivors, they said.
“The survivors may go into coma and end up dying due to stoppage of the oxygen-carrying process of victims when smoke caused by the explosives penetrates their bodies,” the officials added.
The officials said that the explosives used by Taliban in all attacks were pale, white or yellowish in colour, which meant that their source was the same.
“Not only healing of wounds caused by Taliban bombs is hard but the survivors often develop contractures and other physical deformities due to injuries,” they added.
The forensic experts at health and police departments said that even deep wounds caused by gunshots or knives were treatable but the people injured in Taliban attacks had to live with lifelong deformities after recovery.
“The use of toxins in bombs worsens injuries that are not curable,” they said.
Internews
