DHAKA:  At least 11 people, including additional sessions judge Rafaqat Awan, were killed on Monday when unidentified assailants opened fire and threw crackers in a court in the capital city’s F-8 area, DawnNews reported.

Twenty-five people were reportedly injured in the attack.

Moreover, lawyers fled from their chambers seeking shelter from bullets as fear and panic gripped the premises.

According to police, two blasts took place inside the court`s premises, one near the chambers of a judge and the other outside another office.

Officers at the scene told AFP the incident began when a defendant was brought before the court and his associates tried to break him free.

Another senior-ranking police official said the incident could be a terror attack but nothing could be said with certainty as yet.

The hearings of cases scheduled for the day were postponed.

Subsequently, police and special forces were deployed in the court and emergency was declared in hospitals.

Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Shahidullah Shahid denied the outlawed group`s involvement in the attack.

Shahidullah Shahid said TTP condemned the attack on the court in Islamabad, adding that recent terror attacks should not be linked with the organisation.

The spokesman further said the TTP would not violate the ceasefire it had announced on Saturday.

Pakistan has been in the grip of a bloody homegrown Taliban insurgency since 2007 but attacks within the capital have been very rare in recent years.

BDST: 1302 HRS, MAR 03, 2014