- Title: PAKISTAN: AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE KILLED IN MOSQUE ATTACK
- Date: 31st May 2005
- Summary: (BN12) KARACHI, PAKISTAN (MAY 30, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. HAS EXTERIOR OF MOSQUE AND SHOTS BEING FIRED; SLV PEOPLE IN CHAOS AT MOSQUE 0.07 2. HAS FAST FOOD RESTAURANT ALIGHT; SLV BURNING VEHICLES; SLV KFC RESTAURANT ON FIRE; SLV BURNING VEHICLES; SLV BUILDING AND VEHICLES ON FIRE (12 SHOTS) 1.06 3. MV INJURED IN HOSPITAL (3 SHOTS) 1.16 4.
- Embargoed: 15th June 2005 13:00
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- Location: KARACHI, PAKISTAN
- Country: Pakistan
- Reuters ID: LVA8YN4ROLHKT4MCLNMJQSMYNTF9
- Story Text: At least four killed in mosque attack in southern
Pakistan.
Six people, including three assailants, were killed
in a suicide bomb attack on Monday (May 30, 2005) at a Shi'ite
Muslim mosque in southern Pakistan.
At least 18 other people were wounded, four seriously,
in the attack at the Mandinatul Ilm mosque in a
middle-class area of the port city of Karachi.
It's the latest incident of religious violence to hit a
key ally in the U.S. led war on terrorism.
And it followed a suicide bombing at a Muslim festival
in the capital Islamabad on Friday that killed at least 19
people, mostly Shi'ite Muslims.
Sajjad Hussain, one of the injured said: "As soon as we
stood for prayers, the firing started from behind us. They
(attackers) did not enter from the gate but from the
backside of the (mosque). As we started prayers, the firing
started from all the four directions".
The attack sparked a wave of violence in the city. An
outlet of the American fastfood chain KFC (Kentucky Fried
Chicken) was set alight. Vehicles were also burned.
Hours earlier in Karachi, unknown assailants killed a
provincial leader from the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Islamic
opposition alliance, according to police.
Aslam Mujahid, deputy chief of Jamaat-e-Islami in Karachi,
was kidnapped early in the day and his bullet-riddled body
was later found in an abandoned car in the east of the city.
More than 100 people have been killed in tit-for-tat
attacks by majority Sunni and Shi'ite militants in the past
year. Most of the attacks have been blamed on Sunni
militant groups with links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda
network which have been angered by Pakistan's support for
Washington's war on terrorism.
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