Twelve identified including eight Pakistanis

New Delhi, Feb 20 (UNI) Twelve of the 68 killed in the Samjhauta Express blasts have been identified so far including eight Pakistani nationals and two RPF personnel.

The twelve include a 15-year-old Pakistani boy Harish Mohammad who succumbed to his injuries at the Safdarjung Hospital here this morning.

The Northern Railway this morning released a list of eleven dead in the Samjhauta blasts including seven Pakistanis and two RPF personnel.

Among those in the list are is Yasmeen Akhtar, a resident of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, and Shekina Begum from Salempur in Delhi, the Northern Railway release said.

While six of the seven Pakistanis identified in the list - Saiyyad Akhtar, Tasleem Khan, Nafeesa Begum, Mahreen Khan, Rool Amin and Mohd Sajid - hailed from Hyderabad in Pakistan, the seventh, Shafiq Ahmed, is a resident of Karachi.

Among those identified are also two RPF personnel, Kashmir Singh from Ferozpur and Rajender Pal from Gurdaspur in Punjab.

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