At least six people were injured in a blast at a Chinese-owned nightspot in Islamabad in the early hours of Saturday. The police ruled out a bomb and said they suspected a faulty air conditioner was to blame.
| Yeah, that was prob'ly it. Every time I look around, air conditioners are exploding in every direction... |
The blast at the Chinese Club, a private club frequented by foreign businessmen and diplomats, occurred just before 2:30am. Police said four of the wounded were foreigners: a Kenyan woman, two Tunisian men and a Chinese employee, along with two Pakistani co-workers at the club. The blast damaged the club's boundary wall and the furniture in its hall. The club, along with other Chinese businesses and institutions in Pakistan, had been alerted in May about a possible attack after a car bomb killed three Chinese workers at Gwadar in Balochistan.
| And then the air conditioner coincidentally went "kablooey!" |
But police said the blast at the club bore none of the characteristics of a bomb explosion and no traces of explosive material were found at the site. A police official said the blast was probably caused by a faulty air conditioner combined with built-up gases in the dance and bar room.
| Yeah, blame it on the chili... |
"It was not a bomb," Mohammed Nazeer, an assistant sub-inspector of police, said.
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