At least 11 people were killed and scores injured in a bomb blast in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Monday night, hospital sources and eyewitness said. They said that the bomb was planted on a motorcycle and was apparently triggered by a timing device or remote control.
The area in which explosion took place is dominated by migrant workers for other Pakistani cities and coincided with the arrival of President Pervez Musharraf into the port city on a two-day visit.
Sources said that seven bodies had been brought to the Jinnah Hospital while four bodies had reached the Social Security Hospital near the site of the blast.
The blast occurred on the fourth day of the Islamic month of Moharram which is sacred for Shiite Muslims who constitute 10-15 percent of Pakistan's population of 160 million people.