PAKISTAN: Grenade attack kills three students in Karachi

Record ID: 354904

  • Title: PAKISTAN: Grenade attack kills three students in Karachi
  • Date: 28th April 2014
  • Summary: MEMBER OF BOMB DISPOSAL SQUAD INSPECTING PEOPLE CROWDING ALLEY WHERE MADRASA IS LOCATED CLERICS AND LOCAL RESIDENTS THRONGING GATE OF MADRASA (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER, SAYING: "Further investigation will reveal how it (hand grenade) came here or was it with a boy here. Perhaps it was with a student and exploded. It was a Chinese-made grenade. Three a
  • Embargoed: 13th May 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Pakistan
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Crime,Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVA4SLDV73CW3BGFGADZEM2JMCBZ
  • Story Text: At least three students were killed and seven others wounded when a hand grenade exploded at the seminary, in which they were studying in Pakistan's port city Karachi on Monday (April 28), police and eye witnesses said.
    Police officials told reporters that either some unidentified men hurled a hand grenade or one of the boys brought the grenade inside the madrasa located near a roundabout in a congested area in the western part of the city.
    Three children, aged between seven and 12 years old, were killed on the spot. Seven people, including several children, were injured as a result of the blast, police said.
    "Further investigation will reveal how it (hand grenade) came here or was it with a boy here. Perhaps it was with a student and exploded. It was a Chinese-made grenade. Three are confirmed dead so far and seven are injured," unidentified police official told reporters.
    Window panes of nearby buildings were shattered by the impact of the explosion. Rescue teams shifted the dead and injured to a nearby hospital.
    Police personnel cordoned off the blast site and started investigations.
    "We were standing in the alley when this blast occurred. I could not immediately make out where the blast had taken place. But the direction of the sound was Tahiri mosque. I and other people in the vicinity ran towards the mosque. We knew after reaching at the gate of the mosque that the blast had taken place inside it. We desperately called various ambulance services so that the injured could get the medical treatment. Meanwhile people shifted the injured in auto rickshaws and other vehicles to Abbasi Shaheed hospital," said one eyewitness Naseebur Rehman.
    The attack occurred after six people were killed and 28 injured when a roadside bomb aimed at a bus carrying Shi'ite Muslim worshippers exploded in Karachi on Friday (April 25).
    The blast took place only a day after a police officer known for his anti-terrorism campaign and three other people were killed in a suicide attack near the city's old vegetable market.
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