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| Suicide bombers attack army men, mosque in Karachi |
| 2015-03-21 |
[ARABNEWS] At least two people were killed and seven others maimed after a bomb planted on a cycle of violence went kaboom!outside a mosque in 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... on Friday, police said. The blast took place in the congested Aram Bagh area of Pakistain's biggest city, outside a mosque. Pakistain has been hit by a rising wave of sectarian violence in recent years. A police front man said two were killed in the blast and seven maimed.Saif-ud-Din, a witness, said people were coming out of the mosque after Friday prayers when there was a huge blast and many people fell to the ground. "I was inside the mosque when the bomb went kaboom!and I saw people falling to the ground," Din told AFP. Umer Khatab, a senior officer at the police Counter Terrorism Department, told news hounds that about two kilogrammes (4.4 pounds) of explosives were used in the bomb, which exploded with a timer. "The bomb was planted to target the people coming out of the mosque," Khatab said. Many worshippers in bloodstained clothes gathered outside the mosque, searching for relatives. The blast destroyed the shutters of several nearby shops and shattered windows. In a separate incident a jacket wallah on Friday evening rode a cycle of violence into a vehicle carrying paramilitary troops in the east of the city killing two paramilitary soldiers. "A suicide bomber riding on a motorbike hit the mobile van of (paramilitary) rangers in the neighborhood of North Nazimabad killing two soldiers," senior police official Faisal Noor told AFP. He said three other soldiers in the vehicle were maimed and one was at death's door. |
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