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| India-Pakistan |
| Four explosions rock Karachi |
| 2002-05-03 |
| A boy was killed and five persons were wounded when four bombs exploded in various parts of the city on Thursday. Besides, a strike called by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement left most business centres closed, public transport off the roads and educational activities suspended. Police raided the MQM headquarters in Azizabad and picked up former legislators Aftab Shaikh, Nasreen Jalil and Shoaib Bokhari. Later, the former two were released. One of the four bombs went off in the house of an Afghan junk dealer early in the morning, killing the boy and wounding four others in the family. The house was adjacent to the family junk yard where the bomb, lying in the scrap, exploded. The roof of the house collapsed when the bomb exploded. A teenage rag-picker lost his hand when a low-intensity bomb exploded in the Samanabad police limits. Witnesses said the man had picked up something which exploded in his hand. The third blast occurred near a supermarket. The windowpanes of vehicles were shattered. A similar blast took place at another market. The police said the two blasts were caused by powerful fire-crackers. The strike was called by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to mourn the death of its two former parliamentarians, Mustapha Kamal Rizvi and Dr Nishat Mallick. The two were shot dead on April 26. Earlier on the eve of the strike, 20 people suffered injuries in two bomb blasts at Empress Market and Nursery. But those were just routine, right? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |