Two bombs ripped through an Islamic school Sunday in Pakistan, killing seven and injuring 25 in the latest outbreak of violence gripping the southern port city of Karachi. The blasts went off near a restaurant close to Jamia Binoria in western Karachi, a Sunni Muslim school where thousands study, said Fayyaz Leghari, a senior Karachi police official. There was no claim of responsibility.
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Seven people died and 25 others were injured. The death toll increased after a child who was passing by with his parents died at Civil Hospital Karachi, said Iqrar Abbasi a doctor at the hospital. A spokesman for the seminary, Ghulam Rabbani, said there were two explosions - the first apparently intended to draw a crowd. ``The first one was smaller. When people got to the site there was another explosion,'' he said.
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Officials earlier reported the explosion was near Jamia Islamia Binori Town, a prominent seminary that had links with the Taliban in Afghanistan. But Jamia Binoria, where two explosions occurred, is a different school located near an industrial area in Karachi.
More than 100 police and paramilitary troops blocked off streets around the school following the explosion. The explosion shattered windows at the restaurant and other nearby buildings. The burned wreckage of the motorcycle in which one of the bombs was planted lay with glass and other pieces of rubble strewn around on the street. ``We were drinking tea in the restaurant when the first bomb exploded. We rushed outside'' said Hayaullah Khan, 20, a student at the school, with tea spilled over his traditional white shalwar kameez outfit. |