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| Two die in blast outside Bohra mosque |
| 2015-03-22 |
| [DAWN] KARACHI: At least two people were killed and five others injured when a bomb attached to a parked cycle of violence went off outside a mosque of the Bohra community in Aram Bagh area on Friday. There are both Sunni and Shia Bohras. The Shia are a subsect of the Ismailis. The Sunnis follow the Hanafi flavor of the Religion of Peace and have some sort of mumbo about their imams being descended from the Profit (PTUI) through Fatima. I'm not sure which one got the kaboom here. Since they were at a mosque instead of an imambargah I'd guess they were Sunnis. Since the leader of the community is a "syed" I'd guess they were Shiites. So there you have it. The kaboom took place when people were coming out of Saleh mosque, near Haqqani Chowk, after offering Friday prayer at about 1.55pm. Two people were killed and five injured, said Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... -South DIG Barrister Abdul Khalique Sheikh. The powerful blast was heard several kilometres away. It destroyed two parked cycle of violences and damaged the shutters of two shops and windows of adjoining buildings. A witness told Dawn that he had barely left the mosque when the blast took place. There were at least 400 people in the mosque. A majority of them were offering 'Dua' after the prayer and a few were outside the mosque. The DIG said the mosque was located in a narrow street adjacent to the seven-storey Burhani Hospital, which was being manned by the community's volunteers. There were barriers in lanes around it. It appeared that someone might have parked the cycle of violence outside the main gate of the mosque in the morning when there was no organised checking because there are several shops there. Another witness said a policeman used to be on duty outside the mosque's gate but he had not been seen over the past three weeks. The bomb weighed around 2kg and exploded by remote control, Raja Umer Khattab, an official of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), said. The cycle of violence used in the kaboom belonged to one Liaquat Umer of Keamari area who was reportedly an old man and Sherlocks were trying to locate him. Referring to a recent attack on two shops belonging to members of the Bohra community in Bahadurabad in which one shopkeeper was killed and four others were maimed, the CTD official said a bully boy group which had attacked the community in 2012 might have been re-activated in the city. Seven people, including an infant, were killed in twin blasts in the Bohra compound in North Nazimabad on Sept 18, 2012, a day after a visit to the city by the spiritual leader of the community, Syed Mufaddal Bhaisaheb Saifuddin. Raja Umer said that no arrest had been made after the 2012 attack but it was suspected that Jundullah, and a local chapter of Al Qaeda, had been involved. The group was also allegedly involved in killing coppers in the city. |
| Posted by:Fred |